Does Console.WriteLine() stop printing when it reaches a NULL character within a string?

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85. Does Console.WriteLine() stop printing when it reaches a NULL character within a string?

Strings are not null terminated in the runtime, so embedded nulls are allowed. Console.WriteLine() and all similar methods continue until the end of the string.

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