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		pdpi on July 15, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I'm not a fan of strlcpy(3) By that metric, C can't represent ASCII correctly either, because there's no particular reason you couldn't have a NUL character somewhere inside a string.

TeMPOraL on July 15, 2024 [–]

Indeed it can't. Many developers were bitten by this, and still are; plenty of critical bugs and security vulnerabilities rely on this quirk too.

account42 on July 15, 2024 | [–]

Technically, C can. It's just C strings that are limited.

pdpi on July 15, 2024 | | [–]

Sure, in the exact same way that C can handle unicode just fine too. The problem is, as always, C strings.

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