Re: COUNTER-SET for alphabetical ordered lists ignored for utf-8 exporter

[Stacey Marshall]

Regarding 
https://list.orgmode.org/orgmode/36a62fbf-6484-456f-9537-a7aa40530068@app.fastmail.com/

Was the intention with this change to remove alphabetical lists from
text (ascii) exporter?

----
#+begin_src 
,#+title: Test document

,#+options: toc:nil author:nil
,* test of alphabetical export

,#+begin_src emacs-lisp :exports both :eval yes
(format "%S\n%S\norg-list-allow-alphabetical: %S\n"
        (emacs-version) (org-version) org-list-allow-alphabetical)
,#+end_src

a. Point A
b. Point B
c. Point C
d. [@z] Point Z
#+end_src

Latest 9.7 alpha results in the alphabetical labels being replaced
with numbers::
#+begin_example
1 test of alphabetical export
=============================

  ,----
  | (format "%S\n%S\norg-list-allow-alphabetical: %S\n"
  |     (emacs-version) (org-version) org-list-allow-alphabetical)
  `----

  ,----
  | "GNU Emacs 29.1 (build 1, aarch64-apple-darwin23.3.0, Carbon Version 170 
AppKit 2487.4)
  |  of 2024-02-26"
  | "9.7-pre"
  | org-list-allow-alphabetical: t
  `----


  1. Point A
  2. Point B
  3. Point C
  26. Point Z
#+end_example

Removing the change to ox-ascii.el restores it, but leaves the original issue:

#+begin_src diff :eval no :exports code
$ git diff lisp/ox-ascii.el
diff --git a/lisp/ox-ascii.el b/lisp/ox-ascii.el
index db4356ec6..78641f1db 100644
--- a/lisp/ox-ascii.el
+++ b/lisp/ox-ascii.el
@@ -1485,7 +1485,7 @@ contextual information."
                                      struct
                                      (org-list-prevs-alist struct)
                                      (org-list-parents-alist struct)))))))
-              (replace-regexp-in-string "[0-9A-Za-z]+" num bul)))
+              (replace-regexp-in-string "[0-9]+" num bul)))
            (_ (let ((bul (org-list-bullet-string
                           (org-element-property :bullet item))))
                 ;; Change bullets into more visible form if UTF-8 is active.
#+end_src

#+begin_example
1 test of alphabetical export
=============================

  ,----
  | (format "%S\n%S\norg-list-allow-alphabetical: %S\n"
  |     (emacs-version) (org-version) org-list-allow-alphabetical)
  `----

  ,----
  | "GNU Emacs 29.1 (build 1, aarch64-apple-darwin23.3.0, Carbon Version 170 
AppKit 2487.4)
  |  of 2024-02-26"
  | "9.7-pre"
  | org-list-allow-alphabetical: t
  `----


  a. Point A
  b. Point B
  c. Point C
  d. Point Z
#+end_example

I must admit that I had not noticed that other exporters converted
the letter to a number.  Going forward I shall stop using them.

If it is obsoleted or deprecated then a mention to etc/ORG-NEWS
would be appreciated.

yours faithfully,

Stacey Marshall