bug#23763: Bug report: Grep stops, if a text file contains a null character after 32768 bytes

[Paul Eggert]

sur-behoffski wrote:
> Are there documentation standards, especially GNU ones, that cover this
> distinction?  If not, is it worth striving to gradually introduce this
> in a systematic manner, e.g. "NUL (the zero character)"?

I don't know of any terminology standards in this area. (Wikipedia does not 
count. :-)