Ned Freed wrote: >> (Unicode lacks a no-op, a meaningless octet, one that could >> be added or removed without causing any change to the >> meaning of the text). > NBSP is used for this purpose. My proposal u+FFFE was nonsense, I wanted u+FEFF. The latter is "zero width nbsp" (aka BOM), did you also mean this beast ? Not a no-op in some cases wrt hyphenation and composition, so it's probably not what Tom wants. Frank http://www.eki.ee/letter/chardata.cgi?ucode=FEFF http://tools.ietf.org/html/3629#section-6 _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf