Re: 22.2.50; Display of "zero width no-break space" (U+FEFF)

[Juri Linkov]

>> in Emacs 22.2.50, "zero width no-break space" (U+FEFF) is displayed as
>> a hollow box. [1]
>>
>> I think for normal buffers it should be displayed like ` ' (NO-BREAK
>> SPACE, U+00A0) i.e. using the face face `nobreak-space'.  But when
>> `nobreak-char-display' is nil, it should not be displayed at all or
>> like a normal SPC.  (Dunno what Unicode says about it.)
>
> Any opinions on this?

This is the same character as BOM.  But since it is *ZERO-WIDTH*
NO-BREAK SPACE, it seems it shouldn't be displayed at all in view mode.
But it edit mode, it would be preferable to have some indication
about the presence of this character in the buffer.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/