----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ned Freed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Frank Ellermann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, December 26, 2005 7:56 PM
Subject: Re: Troubles with UTF-8


> > Ned Freed wrote:
> 
> > >> (Unicode lacks a no-op, a meaningless octet, one that could
> > >>  be added or removed without causing any change to the
> > >>  meaning of the text).
> 
> > > NBSP is used for this purpose.
> 
> > My proposal u+FFFE was nonsense, I wanted u+FEFF.  The latter
> > is "zero width nbsp" (aka BOM), did you also mean this beast ?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > Not a no-op in some cases wrt hyphenation and composition, so
> > it's probably not what Tom wants.
> 
> It's close enough.
> 
Thanks for that - as close as I am going to get:-)    

Tom Petch

> Ned
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