From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
To: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org,
Patrick Drechsler <patrick@pdrechsler.de>,
tomas@tuxteam.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: 23.0.60; [nxml] BOM and utf-8
Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 09:28:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48352EB0.5060805@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <buoy763ez5a.fsf@dhapc248.dev.necel.com>
Miles Bader wrote:
> The encoding of BOM (incidentally, isn't this name for it obsolete?)
The Unicode Consortium seems very confused over this, probably because
of the format they've chosen for the character info tables they publish,
which they don't want to change now because software relies on it (the
only way of specifying an alternate name seems to be to deprecate the
old name to the "1.0 name" field, and use the new name as the preferred
name). It was renamed to ZWNBSP in Unicode 2.0 to reflect its dual
purpose as BOM and zero width no break space. Then in a later version
of Unicode its use as ZWNBSP was deprecated, but the official name was
not changed back (swapping the ZWNBSP and BOM names would not be
strictly correct, as ZWNBSP was not its name in Unicode 1.0).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-22 8:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-17 12:31 23.0.60; [nxml] BOM and utf-8 Patrick Drechsler
2008-05-17 14:13 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-05-17 16:57 ` Patrick Drechsler
2008-05-17 20:38 ` Mark A. Hershberger
2008-05-21 22:20 ` Patrick Drechsler
2008-05-21 22:37 ` Patrick Drechsler
2008-05-22 1:33 ` Mark A. Hershberger
2008-05-22 14:43 ` Tom Tromey
2008-05-22 21:24 ` Miles Bader
2008-05-22 4:17 ` tomas
2008-05-22 4:33 ` Miles Bader
2008-05-22 8:28 ` Jason Rumney [this message]
2008-05-27 8:22 ` tomas
2008-05-22 17:34 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-05-23 9:05 ` tomas
2008-05-23 21:23 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-05-27 8:20 ` tomas
2008-05-18 2:29 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-05-18 2:30 ` Miles Bader
2008-05-18 3:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-05-18 4:19 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-05-18 8:56 ` Jason Rumney
2008-05-18 11:00 ` Patrick Drechsler
2008-05-19 3:11 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-05-19 14:32 ` Patrick Drechsler
2008-05-19 18:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-05-20 15:16 ` Patrick Drechsler
2008-05-18 15:19 ` joakim
2008-05-18 4:13 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-05-18 5:40 ` Miles Bader
2008-05-18 9:14 ` David Kastrup
2008-05-19 3:05 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-05-18 23:40 ` David Kastrup
2008-05-19 20:34 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-05-19 20:57 ` David Kastrup
2008-05-19 23:36 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-05-20 7:13 ` David Kastrup
2008-05-30 2:47 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-05-30 3:44 ` Miles Bader
2008-05-30 3:59 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-05-19 6:32 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
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