bug#34492: Acknowledgement (rx: ASCII-raw byte ranges comprise all of Unicode)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase@acm.org>
> Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2019 09:08:11 +0100
> Cc: 34492@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> 16 feb. 2019 kl. 08.20 skrev Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>:
> > 
> > Thanks, this LGTM, but I think this should be in NEWS.  It's arguably
> > a bug, but only arguably, and it changes user-visible behavior.
> 
> I'll be happy to write a NEWS item, but for what? The change of bug #33205, 
> or this change, which is not visible unless the other change is already 
> applied (and it hasn't made it into a release yet)?

I mean both.

> If you mean the #33205 fix, it might result in something like the following:
> 
> ** `rx' now handles raw bytes in character alternatives correctly when
> given in a string.  Previously, `(any "\x80-\xff")' would match characters
> U+0080...U+00FF.  Now the expression matches raw bytes in the 128...255 range,
> as expected.
> 
> Is that what you had in mind?

Yes.

> If so, in what subsection would it go?

Either make a new section for rx under "Changes in Specialized Modes
and Packages", or put it under "Incompatible Lisp Changes".

Thanks.