Comment Comment by akira2501 > You still need to make sure nulls can't show upWhich is very easy to do without losing any desired functionality as opposed to delimiters in the ASCII character range.> and you need to consider possible truncation scenariosIn particular hashing libraries worth using never have this problem.> and make sure they won't cause silent failures at any point.They literally only need to exist in the data to one function call. Afterwards they are not needed or significant. parent akira2501 2 years ago
Which is very easy to do without losing any desired functionality as opposed to delimiters in the ASCII character range.
> and you need to consider possible truncation scenarios
In particular hashing libraries worth using never have this problem.
> and make sure they won't cause silent failures at any point.
They literally only need to exist in the data to one function call. Afterwards they are not needed or significant.