Kent Karlsson <kentk at md dot chalmers dot se> wrote: >> From what I'm hearing from you all is that a null in UTF-8 is >> for termination and termination only. >> Is this correct? > > No, NULL is a character (actually a control character) among many > others. However, many C/C++ APIs (mis)use NULL as a string terminator > since NULL isn't very useful for other things.
The use of NULL to terminate strings is a basic part of the Standard C library, not just certain APIs. As such, it doesn't seem right to call this a "misuse" of the character. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California
