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>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Andreas Politz <politza <at> hochschule-trier.de>
To: mohammad.mahmoudi <at> gmail.com
Cc: 19878 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19878: 24.4; Syntax class [:alpha:] wrongly matches the Indian digits ۱۲۳۴۵۶۷۸۹۰ as letter
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2015 21:16:13 +0100

I think this is supposed to be:

,----[ (info "(elisp) Char Classes") ]
| `[:alpha:]'
|      This matches any letter.  (At present, for multibyte characters, it
|      matches anything that has word syntax.)
`----

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