Marco Cimarosti scripsit:
> You forget one fundamental thing about U+FEFF: it is not (only) a "byte
> order mark" or an "encoding signature": it (also) is a "ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK
> SPACE".
Actually, this semantic seems to be going away soon, but until it does...
> I.e., it has been designed to be a white space, to not separate words, to
> not constitute a line-break opportunity and, last but not least, to be
> invisible.
>
> In other words, if correctly implemented, it is a totally non-invasive
> character: a very gentle little animal that should cause no harm to nobody.
...it is not quite true that ZWNBSP has no semantics. There is a fundamental
difference between "inactive" and "in!active" (where "!" represents ZWNBSP),
namely that at the end of a line such as this one, it is correct to show "in-
active" with hyphenation, whereas "in!active" at the end of a line must be
"inactive", with wordwrap.
-- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore --Douglas Hofstadter
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