Re: U+0000 in C strings (was: Re: Opinions on this Java URL?)

From: John Cowan (jcowan@reutershealth.com)
Date: Mon Nov 15 2004 - 00:05:00 CST

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    Doug Ewell scripsit:

    > As soon as you can think of one, let me know. I can think of plenty of
    > *binary* protocols that require zero bytes, but no *text* protocols.

    Most languages other than C define a string as a sequence of characters
    rather than a sequence of non-null characters. The repertoire of characters
    than can exist in strings usually has a lower bound, but its full magnitude
    is implementation-specific. In Java, exceptionally, the repertoire is
    defined by the standard rather than the implementation, and it includes
    U+0000. In any case, I can think of no language other than C which does
    not support strings containing U+0000 in most implementations. 

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