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From: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@bitpay.com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	Andreas Schildbach <andreas@schildbach.de>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP 38 NFC normalisation issue
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 17:20:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANEZrP1ee5wnekmoA-R+x30XB13bfhHcdyKS96BXac8POfPoNg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJHLa0MMaQU7Xu=vo0Z2C5h5M-Oa9_a648yDRrw6UR=r81X66w@mail.gmail.com>

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> Unicode guarantees that null-terminated strings still work.


UTF-8 guarantees that. Other encodings do not, you can have null bytes in
UTF-16 strings for example. Indeed most languages that use pascal-style
encodings internally allow null characters in strings, it's just not a good
idea to exploit that fact ...

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-15 15:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-15 12:03 [Bitcoin-development] BIP 38 NFC normalisation issue Mike Hearn
2014-07-15 13:07 ` Eric Winer
2014-07-15 13:19   ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-07-15 13:32     ` Michael Wozniak
2014-07-15 15:13   ` Brooks Boyd
2014-07-15 18:20     ` Mike Hearn
2014-07-15 22:23       ` Aaron Voisine
2014-07-16  9:12         ` Mike Hearn
2014-07-16  9:17         ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-07-16  9:29           ` Mike Hearn
2014-07-16 10:46             ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-07-16 11:04               ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-07-16 21:06                 ` Aaron Voisine
2014-07-16 22:02                   ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-07-16 22:22                     ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-07-17 10:59                     ` Mike Hearn
2014-07-17 11:27                       ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-07-16 12:38             ` Wladimir
2014-07-15 15:17   ` Jeff Garzik
2014-07-15 15:20     ` Mike Hearn [this message]
2014-07-15 15:32     ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-07-15 15:53       ` Jeff Garzik

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