What is meant by '\u0000'?

From: juuichiketajin@ranmamail.com
Date: Mon Nov 26 2001 - 13:25:25 EST


> As for cut & paste, it might work among Microsoft Apps
> but if one wants to interface an app with a disclosed
> clipboard format he will realize that he can not paste
> unicode text that contains '\u0000' characters. Impossible.

Does he mean specifically the character U+0000, or rather any character referenced by hex codepoint?

Hex codepoints (or something similar) are sometimes needed to keep ASCII-only systems from trashing your data. I have used them so much I took my copy of the Unicode standard and on the hiragana page, wrote some decimal equivalents of hex numbers there.
Hex codepoints are an excellent idea when making a display that is to be shown on browsers set to who knows what codepage.

Tex, how did you do the name page, anyway?

It would be useful to have a utility where you type text and out come the '\u0000' type strings (or else HTML hash codes) for use in a Java program or Web page.

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