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.TH empty_string 3alleg4 "version 4.4.3" "Allegro" "Allegro manual"
.SH NAME
empty_string \- Universal string NULL terminator. Allegro game programming library.\&
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B #include <allegro.h>

.sp
.B extern char empty_string[];
.SH DESCRIPTION
You can't just rely on "" to be a valid empty string in any encoding 
format. This global buffer contains a number of consecutive zeros, so it 
will be a valid empty string no matter whether the program is running in 
ASCII, Unicode, or UTF-8 mode.