Not everything needs to be a C-string (null-terminated array/sequence of characters.) We are advanced enough with our understanding of Things that we can includ

Not everything needs to be a C-string (null-terminated array/sequence of characters.) We are advanced enough with our understanding of Things that we can include metadata along with a chunk of bytes to indicate “this is a ‘string’ and it’s q bytes long and can have any value you want in there.” That said, I’m with you. And if someone wants nulls inside their “strings” then they probably want blobs.