Re: Stateful encoding mechanisms

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From: "Philippe Verdy" <verdy_p@wanadoo.fr>
>
> The BOM is NOT a character.

Hm. Is that relevant in terms of statelessness?

> In a UTF-16 encoding *scheme* the leading BOM is fully ignorable.
> But in a UTF-16 encoding form, there's simply NO BOM and the
> codepoint U+FEFF is legal and represents ZWNSP.
>
> You are mixing several levels in the Unicode character model.

In this case let's split UTF-8 into several levels and put control
characters on different level from codepoints. That will make that
encoding stateless :-) The text will probably have to be stored in
separate chunks starting with control sequence each, though.

Best Reagrds.

Alexander Kh

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