On Jan 27, 2011, at 10:50 PM, Greg Hudson wrote: > "NUL" (all caps) is sometimes used as an abbreviation for the null > character.
And is (I think, though I've not read the ASCII std directly), the formal ASCII abbreviation for the non-printable '\0' character. I've certainly seen it on ASCII tables for decades. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII (And thus, it seems, part of UTF-8 which adopts ASCII for the first 128 chars ... I see NUL listed on the codepage table at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8 ) -Travis