On Jan 27, 2011, at 10:50 PM, Greg Hudson wrote:

> "NUL" (all caps) is sometimes used as an abbreviation for the null
> character.


And is (I think, though I've not read the ASCII std directly), the formal ASCII 
abbreviation for the non-printable '\0' character.  I've certainly seen it on 
ASCII tables for decades.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII

(And thus, it seems, part of UTF-8 which adopts ASCII for the first 128 chars 
... I see NUL listed on the codepage table at 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8 )

-Travis

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