Re: Horizontal Tab and Line Feed are non-ASCII according to the ASCII category

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 01:52:36 +0100
> From: "Chris Moore" <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> On 2/12/07, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I hope we don't plan on changing _anything_ in this regard before the
> > release, no matter what we find in the specs.  The cited fragment from
> > characters.el has been there since before Emacs moved into CVS in 1997!
> 
> How is the age of the bug relevant?

The issue seems to be resolved by now, but since you asked a general
question: The age is relevant because it gives you an idea about 2
important factors to consider:

  . the severity of the bug (or, rather, the lack thereof)

  . how many problems will be caused by changing the old code, since,
    as time passes, more and more application-level code tends to
    expect the extant behavior