On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 11:38 AM, Sebastian Berg <sebastian@sipsolutions.net
wrote:
I remember talking with a colleague about something like that. And basically an annoying thing there was that if you strip the zero bytes in a zero padded string, some encodings (UTF16) may need one of the zero bytes to work right.
I think it's really clear that you don't want to mess with the bytes in any way without knowing the encoding -- for UTF-16, the code unit is two bytes, so a "null" is two zero bytes in a row. So generic "null padded" or "null terminated" is dangerous -- it would have to be "Null-padded utf-8" or whatever. Though I
think it might have been something like "make everything in hdf5/something similar work"
That would be nice :-), but I suspect HDF-5 is the same as everything else -- there are files in the wild where someone jammed the wrong thing into a text array .... -CHB -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer Emergency Response Division NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception Chris.Barker@noaa.gov