"Dimitrie O. Paun" dpaun@rogers.com writes:
What about supporting regular C escaping rules? It would be pretty consistent with the file format, and frankly I'd expect that to be supported (speaking as a Unix user). As for processing overhead, I'd be surprised if it shows on the radar.
It's pretty much supported already. This doesn't really solve the problem of getting rid of the terminating null (except if you want to require always specifying the null explicitly, but that's not backwards compatible).