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Re: perl unicode support [BACK ON-TOPIC]

Rich Felker wrote:
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>
> Null termination is not the security problem. Broken languages that
> DON'T use null-termination are the security problem, particularly
> mixing them with C.

C is the language that handles one out of 256 possible byte values
inconsistently (with respect to the other 255) (in C strings).
 
The other languages handle all 256 byte values consistently.

Why isn't it C that is a bit broken (that has irregular limitation)?  



Daniel
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