Doug Ewell wrote:
> The only time a UTF-8 stream would contain an embedded 0x00 would be
> when the underlying Unicode text contains 0x0000. Why this perfectly
> normal and appropriate use of a NUL would have to be concealed in an
> escape sequence is beyond me.
Again, it is not the representation of streams that is at issue,
but of in-memory strings. Using the mutated UTF-8 representation
allows the use of the traditional C representation, in which 0x00
represents end-of-string.
-- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn. You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn. Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)
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