Understanding EncryptStringENC and DecryptStringENC in Python and C/C++

Chilkat provides API’s that are identical across a variety of different programming languages. One difficulty in doing this is in handling strings. Different programming languages pass strings in different ways. In some programming languages, such as Python or C/C++, a “string” is simply a sequence of bytes terminated by a null. (I’m referring to “multibyte” strings, not Unicode (utf-16) strings. […]