You could have just said it rather than going through this smug "I know something you don't know!" song and dance. Also, by this rationale, NO string is ever s

You could have just said it rather than going through this smug "I know something you don't know!" song and dance. Also, by this rationale, NO string is ever safe in C, because pretty much every encoding technically supports codepoint 0 (even though you take your life into your hands should you ever use it). This is not a useful discussion.