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26.1; [[:cntrl:]] does not match DEL contrary to documentation

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Message #14 received at 34391 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 34391 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#34391: Acknowledgement (26.1; [[:cntrl:]] does not match DEL
 contrary to documentation)
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2019 10:56:07 +0100

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8 feb. 2019 kl. 22.58 skrev Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> 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?

[0001-PATCH-Document-that-cntrl-does-not-match-DEL-Bug-343.patch (application/octet-stream, attachment)]

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