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26.0.50; [:blank:] character class should match all Unicode horizontal whitespace

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From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 25366 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25366: 26.0.50; [:blank:] character class should match all Unicode horizontal whitespace
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2017 15:00:22 +0000

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Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> schrieb am Do., 5. Jan. 2017 um 16:50 Uhr:

> > From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
> > Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2017 14:46:01 +0100
> >
> > (string-match-p "[[:blank:]]" "\N{HAIR SPACE}")
> > => nil, expected 0
> >
> > [[:blank:]] should be the same as \h in PRCE.
>
> We are consistent with our documentation, but I agree that it would be
> good to extend [:blank:], as proposed here:
>
>
> http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr18/tr18-19.html#Compatibility_Properties
>
> Patches to that effect are welcome.
>

Here's a patch.

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