Null characters are almost always avoided in interchanged plain texts. This is not a practicle problem. The use of nulls as significant characters is extremely exceptional, as they almost always require an envelope format to specify data lengths. this envelope format is in a file that is not plain-text by itself.
2012/7/13 Stephan Stiller <stephan.stil...@gmail.com>: > As an aside to the BOM discussion - something I've always been meaning to > ask. > > So there is a BOM-ambiguity when a file starts with > FF FE > and then a couple of U+0000 characters, yes? Because this could be either > UTF-16 or UTF-32 under little-endianness. Has this been pointed out and > discussed beforehand? > > Because the set of BOMs in different encodings don't constitute a > prefix-free code. > > Stephan > >
