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Re:Text Is the Universal Interface by akira2501 on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @02:14PM (#33099174)
> How do you identify the end of a Unicode text stream

"Why not just a zero byte?"

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Re:Text Is the Universal Interface by falcolas on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @02:17PM (#33099214)
You'd need 4 of them to avoid ambiguity. The C string delineation model has a lot of issues we probably don't want to keep. :)
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Re:Text Is the Universal Interface by rmasters on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @04:14PM (#33100738)
In some encodings? One zero is sufficient for UTF-8.
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