Kent Karlsson wrote:
>
> Well, the format is specified in:
>
>
>http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/docs/api/java/io/DataOutput.html#writeUTF(java.lang.String)
>
> ... The method does NOT write a NULL (of any kind) at the end of
> the string, and I have no idea why it modifies the representation of NULL.
I thought that the reason Java modified the representation of NUL was
so that Java strings containing NUL characters could be passed (via
JNI) to native code as regular C (NUL-terminated) strings.
> PS
> NULL **is** "just another UnicoXXXXX ISO 6421 control character".
> It's C that misbehaves...
P.S. Isn't that "NUL"? ("NULL" is the null pointer preprocessor
constant in standard C.)
Daniel
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