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Author phr
Recipients lemburg, phr
Date 2008-05-15.10:55:48
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Some java applications use it externally.  The purpose seems to be to
prevent NUL bytes from appearing inside encoded strings which can
confuse C libraries that expect NUL's to terminate strings.  My
immediate application is parsing lucene indexes:

http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/fileformats.html#Chars
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2008-05-15 10:56:43phrsetspambayes_score: 0.0927697 -> 0.09276973
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2008-05-15 10:56:37phrsetspambayes_score: 0.0927697 -> 0.0927697
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