Chris Fynn wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > ... I think the suggestion that BOM and ZWNBSP be
> > de-unified, which I have heard before, may make the best sense.
>
> *If* that's the solution, it should be done yesterday. The longer it takes the
> more implementations (and data) there will be that needs to be changed.
>
It *was* done yesterday. In fact, it was done yester*year*.
See http://www.unicode.org/unicode/alloc/Pipeline.html
U+2060 ZERO WIDTH WORD JOINER was accepted by the UTC on 99-Oct-26.
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.
--Ken
