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Character Encodings 101 (libbey.me)
3 points by burke on April 25, 2013 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



Really minor nit: The name for the all-bits-zero byte is NUL. NULL is C's null pointer value, which is also represented by zero (but does not fit into a byte).


Thanks! Updated.


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