On Sun, Jan 19, 2020 at 12:20:18AM -0500, Paul Procacci wrote: > On Sun, Jan 19, 2020 at 12:12 AM yary <not....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > In UTF-16 every character is 16 bits, so all 8 bits of zeros tells you is > > that it's possibly a big-endian ascii character or a little-endian > > non-ascii character at a position divisible by 256. All zeros U+0000 is > > unicode NULL, which the windows UTF-16 C convention uses to terminate the > > string. > > Perfect. Obviously didn't know that. My assumption that only the first > byte gets checked was obviously wrong.
It is correct if you're talking about UTF-8, not UTF-16 :)
G'luck,
Peter
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