EBCDIC control characters

Corentin corentin.jabot at gmail.com
Sat Jun 20 03:57:10 CDT 2020


On Fri, 19 Jun 2020 at 22:30, Ken Whistler via Unicode <unicode at unicode.org>
wrote:

>
> On 6/19/2020 3:48 AM, Richard Wordingham via Unicode wrote:
> > Isn't there still the issue of supporting U+0000 in C-type strings?
>
> I don't see why. And it has nothing to do with Unicode per se, anyway.
>
> That is just a transform of the question of "the issue of supporting 0x00
> in
> C-type strings restricted to ASCII."
>
> The issue is precisely the same, and the solutions are precisely the same
> -- by design.
>

I'm not sure I understand that issue, could you clarify?
in both C and C++, U+0000  is interpreted as the null character (which mark
the end of the string depending on context), which is the same behavior as
the equivalent
ascii character


>
> --Ken
>
>
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