31 Jan
2005
31 Jan
'05
10:36 a.m.
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:30:58 -0500, you wrote:
A BOM came to be permitted because it uses the identical code as NBSP (non-breaking space).
Not quite. It's the same code (U+FEFF) as ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE. This is _not_ the same thing as NO-BREAK SPACE (U+00A0), which is what you frequently see in HTML as . Steve Schafer Fenestra Technologies Corp http://www.fenestra.com/