Re: BOM as WJ?

From: Asmus Freytag (asmusf@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Fri Nov 21 2003 - 04:18:00 EST

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At 05:44 AM 11/19/2003, Philippe Verdy wrote:
> > However, a couple of paragraphs up, the definition for No-Break
> > Space says:
> >
> > > U+00A0 [No-Break Space] behaves like the following coded
> > > character sequence: U+FEFF [Zero Width No-Break Space] +
> > > U+0020 [Space] + U+FEFF [Zero Width No-Break Space].
> >
> > Is this something that has slipped by the editors? Or am I missing
> > something?

The U+FEFF most certainly should have been replaced by WJ in this
paragraph. The text is still correct, as FEFF must forever retain
its ZWNBSP semantics for backwards compatibility, but it flies
in the face of our attempt to discourage its use in favor of WJ.

A./

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