What are the problems of a zero-terminated string that length-prefixed strings overcome?

Question

What are the problems of a zero-terminated string that length-prefixed strings overcome?

I was reading the book Write Great Code vol. 1 and I had that question in mind.<

Answer 1

One problem is that you can not store null characters (value zero) in a zero terminated string. This makes it impossible to store some character encodings as well as encrypted data.

Length-prefixed strings do not suffer that limitation.