Re: discovering code points with embedded nulls

[Stefan Persson]

What is that strange file (winmail.dat) attached to your mail? I really hope that it isn't a virus.

Stefan

Kent Karlsson wrote:

From what I'm hearing from you all is that a null in UTF-8 is for termination and termination only.
Is this correct?

No, NULL is a character (actually a control character) among many
others. However, many C/C++ APIs (mis)use NULL as a string terminator
since NULL isn't very useful for other things.

/kent k

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