Re: Should the IETF be condoning, even promoting, BOM pollution?

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On 9/18/17 15:31, Ted Lemon wrote:
On Sep 18, 2017, at 4:26 PM, Adam Roach <adam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Given that the formal name for the thing we're calling a BOM is "ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE" -- which is a pretty accurate description for how it is intended to be rendered in UTF-8 -- I'm not sure what kind of visual damage you've envisioning here.

When you copy and paste the text, does it copy the ZWNBS or not?


As with all clipboard-related issues, I'm sure the answer to that varies and is heavily dependent on the tuple of {source application, destination application, operating system}.

/a


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