On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Ned Konz wrote:

> > Null characters can't be part of strings cut and pasted between
> > Squeak and Mac OS applications; the null and all subsequent
> > characters are lost. The reason is obvious, and I'm not sure that
> > it's actually a problem, but it's worth noting.
> 
> How is the reason obvious? Don't they have a length associated with 
> their strings?

Yes, they do.

I just modified the clipboard code trivially (removing a few NUL
terminator assumptions I'd stupidly put in there):

  stringWithCString: -> stringWithCString:length:
  CFStringCreateWithCString -> CFStringCreateWithBytes
  strncpy -> memcpy

and now everything works fine with embedded NULs in the clipboard.

Cheers,
Ian