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Re: svn commit: r1064168 - in /subversion/trunk/subversion/include/private: svn_eol_private.h svn_fs_util.h svn_mergeinfo_private.h svn_opt_private.h svn_sqlite.h svn_wc_private.h

From: Travis <svn_at_castle.fastmail.fm>
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 07:49:04 -0600

On Jan 27, 2011, at 10:50 PM, Greg Hudson wrote:

> "NUL" (all caps) is sometimes used as an abbreviation for the null
> character.

And is (I think, though I've not read the ASCII std directly), the formal ASCII abbreviation for the non-printable '\0' character. I've certainly seen it on ASCII tables for decades.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII

(And thus, it seems, part of UTF-8 which adopts ASCII for the first 128 chars ... I see NUL listed on the codepage table at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8 )

-Travis
Received on 2011-01-28 14:49:44 CET

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