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Re: To get Unicode file (UTF8) with a leading byte-order-marker charact
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Jason Rumney |
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Re: To get Unicode file (UTF8) with a leading byte-order-marker characters? |
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Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:14:16 -0000 |
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On Jun 16, 9:35 pm, Harald Hanche-Olsen <han...@math.ntnu.no> wrote:
> Anyway, the BOM designation is deprecated. The proper unicode name for
> the character in question is ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE.
Its more complicated than that. It was previously renamed, then in a
later version of the Unicode spec, its use as a ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK
SPACE character was deprecated as WORD JOINER, ZERO WIDTH JOINER and
ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER provide the same functionality with more
detailed meaning, so it retains only the BOM usage, with the ZWNBSP
name. Welcome to design by committee!