From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from sog-mx-4.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.43.194] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by sfs-ml-1.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1X74WW-0007e1-W8 for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 15 Jul 2014 15:20:09 +0000 Received-SPF: pass (sog-mx-4.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com: domain of gmail.com designates 209.85.214.177 as permitted sender) client-ip=209.85.214.177; envelope-from=mh.in.england@gmail.com; helo=mail-ob0-f177.google.com; Received: from mail-ob0-f177.google.com ([209.85.214.177]) by sog-mx-4.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) id 1X74WV-0002KZ-6Q for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 15 Jul 2014 15:20:08 +0000 Received: by mail-ob0-f177.google.com with SMTP id wp18so5718426obc.8 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2014 08:20:01 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.182.163.46 with SMTP id yf14mr15022499obb.40.1405437600362; Tue, 15 Jul 2014 08:20:00 -0700 (PDT) Sender: mh.in.england@gmail.com Received: by 10.76.35.234 with HTTP; Tue, 15 Jul 2014 08:20:00 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 17:20:00 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: _nXWMGW6wUwHh08InST59-h4bCk Message-ID: From: Mike Hearn To: Jeff Garzik Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=e89a8f8389bfec7aba04fe3cf0ec X-Spam-Score: -0.5 (/) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by mx.sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. -1.5 SPF_CHECK_PASS SPF reports sender host as permitted sender for sender-domain 0.0 FREEMAIL_FROM Sender email is commonly abused enduser mail provider (mh.in.england[at]gmail.com) -0.0 SPF_PASS SPF: sender matches SPF record 1.0 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message 0.1 DKIM_SIGNED Message has a DKIM or DK signature, not necessarily valid -0.1 DKIM_VALID Message has at least one valid DKIM or DK signature X-Headers-End: 1X74WV-0002KZ-6Q Cc: Bitcoin Dev , Andreas Schildbach Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP 38 NFC normalisation issue X-BeenThere: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 15:20:09 -0000 --e89a8f8389bfec7aba04fe3cf0ec Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > 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 ... --e89a8f8389bfec7aba04fe3cf0ec Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
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 u= se pascal-style encodings internally allow null characters in strings, it&#= 39;s just not a good idea to exploit that fact ...
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