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MURATA Makoto wrote: > It is my understanding that Unicode 3.0 will have many ideographic > characters which are outside of the BMP. The Unicode Consortium has indicated on its mailing list that no non-BMP characters will appear in Unicode 3.0. (Unless Vertical Extension A is being put in Plane 2 after all?) > >An application receiving data may either use these signatures to > >identify the coded representation form, or may ignore them and treat > >FEFF as the ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE character. > How do you interpret this "or"? I interpret it as "inclusive or", "and/or", "vel". > One could argue that when EF BB BF > is recognized as a signature, it is not treated as the ZWNS. I think that it may or may not be treated as the ZWNBSP. In any event, the whole annex is informative, and describes "a convention [...] applied by a certain class of applications". It is reasonable to suppose that XML is not in that class of applications, at least so far as UTF-8 recognition is concerned. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@c... You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn. You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn. Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5) xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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