== Quote from Steven Schveighoffer (schvei...@yahoo.com)'s article > > array's (dynamic and otherwise) filled with 0's by default? > No, arrays are filled with the .init value. For char, that's 0xff. > -Steve
Ahh that's right. It's 0xFF which is a illegal character for UTF-8 encoding. That does help explain why my asserts involving 0 to 9 kept failing, since my checks were for 0x0, and 0x20. If i happen to duplicate the original problem i'll post back again.
