GNU bug report logs - #19878
24.4; Syntax class [:alpha:] wrongly matches the Indian digits ۱۲۳۴۵۶۷۸۹۰ as letter

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: mohammad.mahmoudi <at> gmail.com

Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2015 19:25:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.4

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Ivan Shmakov <ivan <at> siamics.net>
Cc: 19878 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19878: 24.4; Syntax class [:alpha:] wrongly matches the Indian digits	۱۲۳۴۵۶۷۸۹۰	as letter
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 20:45:40 +0200

> From: Ivan Shmakov <ivan <at> siamics.net>
> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 18:15:09 +0000
> 
> 	Frankly, I can’t even readily suggest any reasonable examples
> 	where one’d want to use [:digit:] in the first place.

Interactive search is one obvious use case, I think.
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