Re: Making TEXT NUL-transparent

<br /><br /><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 4:54 AM, Florian Weimer <span dir="ltr"><<a
href="mailto:fweimer@bfk.de">fweimer@bfk.de</a>></span>wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:
0pt0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><br /> By the way, I refuse the notion
thatUTF-8 strings with embedded NULs<br /> are "broken".  I can't recall any other system which enforces UTF-8<br />
well-formedness,but does not permit embedded NULs.<br /><div class="im HOEnZb"><br /></div></blockquote></div><br /><br
/>Refuseaway, but I don't think you know what you're asking for. Given the number of places that treat text values as
beingnul-terminated in the code, we'd be many years fixing bugs from a change like this, IMNSHO.<br /><br />cheers<br
/><br/>andrew<br />