From: Mike N. 

On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 12:07:04 -0400, "Frank Haber"
 wrote:

>Could someone help this non programmer?  In several MS Technotes, these
>characters are referred to as null chars
>
>null characters ("[~]")
>
>(I presume they mean square brackets, doublequotes and tilde, not the parens?)
>What language/convention is this from?

  I don't recognize this , but the best I can guess it that it is in an XML
document.

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