2015-11-11 14:44 GMT+01:00 Derick Rethans <der...@php.net>: > On Wed, 11 Nov 2015, Nikita Popov wrote: > > > Using a NUL byte conveniently achieves both of these goals. We did not > > however take into account that this would cause issues with 3rd party > > tooling that does not support binary data. > > I withdraw my comment. It does not cause issues for me (anymore). Having > the NUL is actually making things easier. > > cheers, > Derick >
Semi-Related: NUL is especially an issue in exception messages in combination with get_class, because they truncate the messages: https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=70894 Regards, Niklas