----- Original Message ----- From: "Ned Freed" <ned.freed@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Frank Ellermann" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <ietf@xxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, December 26, 2005 7:56 PM Subject: Re: Troubles with UTF-8 > > 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 ? > > Yes. > > > Not a no-op in some cases wrt hyphenation and composition, so > > it's probably not what Tom wants. > > It's close enough. > Thanks for that - as close as I am going to get:-) Tom Petch > Ned > > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf