[ID3 Dev] Why does Itunes write null terminated strings (v2.2/v2.3) ?

[Paul Taylor]

Most people on this list knows that Itunes writes null terminated 
strings, but does anyone know why - did they just make a mistake or is 
there a reason for it ?
I ask because I would like to know what you would expect a tag editor to 
do with these values.

It could display these null terminators but this doesnt make much sense 
to user using the tag editor
It could silently hide these null terminators from view, but they they 
would remain in the file possibly causing problems for other applications
It could provide an option to explicity remove these null terminators 
when the records are loaded, and remove them when they are saved, but 
would this cause any kind of problem for Itunes

thanks Paul


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