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> How is it that the zero byte is part of UTF-8 then? It is a valid code point, just not a printable character. Unicode encodes every character that is or was
by Freak_NL 9y ago
> How is it that the zero byte is part of UTF-8 then?
It is a valid code point, just not a printable character. Unicode encodes every character that is or was in common use, not just the printable characters; this includes the control characters at the beginning of the ASCII table.