New submission from mbiggs <pythonb...@doubleplum.net>: In the Unicode HOWTO: http://docs.python.org/3.3/howto/unicode.html
It says the following: "UTF-8 has several convenient properties: (...) 2. A Unicode string is turned into a sequence of bytes containing no embedded zero bytes. This avoids byte-ordering issues, and means UTF-8 strings can be processed by C functions such as strcpy() and sent through protocols that can’t handle zero bytes." This is not right. UTF-8 uses the zero byte to represent the Unicode codepoint U+0000 (the ASCII NULL character). This is a valid character in UTF-8 and is handled just fine by python's UTF-8 string encoding/decoding. ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 341363 nosy: docs@python, mbiggs priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Unicode HOWTO incorrectly states that UTF-8 contains no zero bytes versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.5, Python 3.6, Python 3.7, Python 3.8 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue36789> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
