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bug#34391: Acknowledgement (26.1; [[:cntrl:]] does not match DEL contrar
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Mattias Engdegård |
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bug#34391: Acknowledgement (26.1; [[:cntrl:]] does not match DEL contrary to documentation) |
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Sun, 10 Feb 2019 10:56:07 +0100 |
8 feb. 2019 kl. 22.58 skrev Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>:
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> I think you don't find any discussion because in some quarters this
> behavior is the only one that makes sense: "ASCII control characters"
> is interpreted as "ASCII characters whose codepoints are below 32
> decimal". Which is why I prefer to amend the documentation to say
> that, instead of excluding DEL explicitly.
Well, DEL has been a control characters for more than half a century now, but
you are right: documentation should be maximally clear to everyone, not just to
those who think the way we think they ought to.
Would this patch do?
0001-PATCH-Document-that-cntrl-does-not-match-DEL-Bug-343.patch
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