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[PATCH] Replace manually crafted hex regexes with [[:xdigit:]]

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Message #53 received at 36167 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: mattiase <at> acm.org, 36167 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, drew.adams <at> oracle.com,
 hi-angel <at> yandex.ru
Subject: Re: bug#36167: [PATCH] Replace manually crafted hex regexes with
 [[:xdigit:]]
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 20:32:38 +0300

> Cc: mattiase <at> acm.org, 36167 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, hi-angel <at> yandex.ru
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 10:18:44 -0700
> 
> On 6/11/19 10:04 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Where did the question about non-ASCII
> > digits come from, given this text?
> 
> It came from POSIX, where [:xdigit:] and [:digit:] might match other 
> characters.

Yes, but when using Emacs and coding for Emacs, one must read the
Emacs documentation, which clearly says what these do in Emacs.

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