Should string literals be null terminated?

[kennykerr]

Original issue here: #937

This could make it easier to work with the ANSI/UTF8 APIs but wouldn't work for the more commonly used wide string APIs.

[riverar]

Would have to carefully handle types such as windows::Win32::UI::Input::KeyboardAndMouse::wszOVERSCORE

[kennykerr]

Yes, I'm not sure that's practical without the metadata indicating that certain strings are definitely null terminated or perhaps simply including the null terminator in the string literals for such strings in the win32 metadata. I guess I could transfer this issue to the win32 metadata repo as well. 😁

[riverar]

Agreed. Given the disparity of null terminated string constant behavior in the various languages, metadata needs to be a bit more explicit.

[kennykerr]

Now that we have string encodings, this doesn't seem to be relevant any longer.