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authorR David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com>2016-08-24 00:44:31 (GMT)
committerR David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com>2016-08-24 00:44:31 (GMT)
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Merge: #25916: fix a few 'string of bytes' references.
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@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ frequently used than UTF-8.) UTF-8 uses the following rules:
UTF-8 has several convenient properties:
1. It can handle any Unicode code point.
-2. A Unicode string is turned into a string of bytes containing no embedded zero
+2. A Unicode string is turned into a sequence of bytes containing no embedded zero
bytes. This avoids byte-ordering issues, and means UTF-8 strings can be
processed by C functions such as ``strcpy()`` and sent through protocols that
can't handle zero bytes.