paul rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Some java applications use it externally. The purpose seems to be to prevent NUL bytes from appearing inside encoded strings which can confuse C libraries that expect NUL's to terminate strings. My immediate application is parsing lucene indexes:
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