Status: New
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New issue 1162 by [email protected]: Strings should terminate on null
bytes in data passed to String::New() (even if a length is provided)
http://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=1162
In many cases, you might have some data like this:
"hello\0\0\0\0\0"
In this case, you know that you have 10 bytes, but it's null-padded, and
you generally only want the first 5 bytes. If no length argument is passed
to String::New(), then it'll do the right thing, and return a string
containing "asdf".
However, if you call String::New(data, 10), then you'll get a string with a
bunch of null characters in it.
I'd argue that \0 is in fact not valid Utf8, and is certainly not valid
ASCII. Even if a length is provided, it should terminate if a null byte is
encountered. You generally never want to see null characters if you're
interpreting an array of bytes as ASCII or UTF-8.
Patch: http://codereview.chromium.org/6524031/
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