Doug Ewell wrote: > Kent Karlsson <kentk at md dot chalmers dot se> 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. > > The use of NULL to terminate strings is a basic part of the Standard C > library, not just certain APIs. As such, it doesn't seem > right to call this a "misuse" of the character.
Moreover, I always thought that serving as a string terminator or data-end sentinel is exactly the function NUL was designed for. _ Marco
