Re: UTF-8N?

From: John Cowan (jcowan@reutershealth.com)
Date: Thu Jun 22 2000 - 14:31:40 EDT


Kenneth Whistler wrote:

> Now we are pushing through the long, bureaucratic process of getting
> this accepted into 10646-1, so it we maintain synchronicity with a
> joint publication of it as a *standard* character.

So a fair statement of what you hope to achieve is: U+2060 will be
the zero-width non-breaking space, or zero-width word joiner depending on
how you look at it, and U+FFFE will be a byte order mark, which MAY
(but SHOULD NOT) be used with the same semantics as U+2060.

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