On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 12:32:17PM +0000, Markus Kuhn wrote: > Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote on 2001-12-11 21:44 UTC: > > My spec is at home but I think it's illegal in subsequent text. > > (Blindly concatenating text for several files could of course > > lead into such a situation.) > > The BOM is illegal nowhere. The BOM is a perfectly normal Unicode
Rats. That's what I get from making things up without looking things up. > character, namely the ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE. Browsers must display > it exactly as such (that is: not display a strange character), wherever > it appears. When you test this in your browser, it is also a good To confuse the issue I think in Unicode 3.2 the BOM will become just BOM, and a new character will take the ZWNBS role. As if applications had already been aware of the old rules... > opportunity to test that the Plane 15 tagging characters are not > displayed as well. > > Some recommendations for treating the BOM under Unix and in encoding > converters are in > > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html > > Markus > > -- > Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK > Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/> -- $jhi++; # http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ # There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. # It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen
