On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 5:55 AM, Peter Da Silva < [email protected]> wrote:
> What is the goal of this discussion? Changing the string terminator SQLite > uses? I think it's almost 50 years too late for that, but I'm sure that if > Unicode and UTF8 had been a thing in 1970 then C would have selected FF as > the string terminator. > > There's so much resistence to handling NUL in command line tools, test and in the engine itself, I figured there must be a reason; maybe the Authentication/Encryption that has been added to sqlite by sqlite people stores meta data after field content; Such content could still be kept, and isolated from users with an alternative string terminator; since that character is never returned to the user it doesn't matter what sqlite uses internally (other than having previously used something else) Is probably a change that is 3.x to 4.x significant though. > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list [email protected] http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
