It depends on the multibyte encoding. However, in Plucker, we really can't have them, since we use NUL to introduce function codes in the text stream. I think you can count on this for text records in a Plucker DB.
Bill > > > 2. Can multi-byte encoded texts have nulls that do not signal the end of > > > the string, i.e., nulls in the middle of multi-byte characters? (I > assume > > > there can't be nulls at the start of them--if there can, our code is in > > > trouble.) > > > > Uhmm.. although this isn't my area of expertise, but I don't think so > > either. If there were alot of other programs would probably be in > > trouble as well :) > > Hmm. I don't really want to count on it if it's not guaranteed, and I can't > find any documentation on this. > > Alex > > _______________________________________________ > plucker-dev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev _______________________________________________ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev