GNU bug report logs - #37036
[PATCH] Inconsistent ASCII and Latin char categories

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>

Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 12:18:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch, wontfix

Done: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #38 received at 37036 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 37036 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#37036: [PATCH] Inconsistent ASCII and Latin char categories
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2019 12:48:34 +0200

tags 37036 wontfix
close 37036
stop

16 aug. 2019 kl. 11.33 skrev Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>:
> 
>> The point is that if there is some code that doesn't work because of the broken categories, there may very well be more.
> 
> This argument goes both ways: there could be code out there which
> relies on the current "broken" definition of the Latin category.

Well, that's an argument against fixing any bug. In general, code is more likely to depend on correctness than on errors.

That said, this is nothing I feel strongly about; let's not waste any more time. Maybe the manual section about categories should be amended to discourage would-be users.
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