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Does MLGetUTF8String() return a null-terminated string?

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• Subject: [mg129844] Does MLGetUTF8String() return a null-terminated string?
• From: Szabolcs Horvát <szhorvat at gmail.com>
• Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 06:02:03 -0500 (EST)
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Does the C MathLink function MLGetUTF8String() return a null-terminated 
string?  The documentation does not say that it does and it returns the 
length of the string as well.  But if it did, it would spare me some 
copying, as my target requires a null-terminated UTF-8 string.

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