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- Subject: Re: lua for unicode
- From: lua+Steven.Murdoch@...
- Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 17:57:18 +0000
> > The null character ('\0' in C) is represented in Unicode as a
> > single, zero
> > byte.
>
> I believe it's a null word, not byte.
In the UTF-8 encoding it is a null byte/octet. All the ASCII characters
(0-127) are represented as one byte, hence maintaining backwards compatibility
with ASCII.
The null byte occurs in no other situation, even with the multi-byte
characters.
Steven Murdoch.
