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bug#34391: Acknowledgement (26.1; [[:cntrl:]] does not match DEL contrar
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#34391: Acknowledgement (26.1; [[:cntrl:]] does not match DEL contrary to documentation) |
Date: |
Sun, 10 Feb 2019 17:19:52 +0200 |
> From: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase@acm.org>
> Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2019 10:56:07 +0100
> Cc: 34391@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> > 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?
Yes, LGTM. Thanks. (Be sure to mention the bug number in the log
message.)