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

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, "Chris Moore" <address@hidden> writes:

> On 2/13/07, Kenichi Handa <address@hidden> wrote:
> > So, how about treating this matter as
> > a documentation bug, and fix it to:
> >   "ISO646 IRV:1983[4/0] (ASCII graphic characters)"
> > instead of modifying the code?

> That seems like a reasonable solution.  I think it would be good to
> add some further explanation, because it's not clear what 'graphic
> characters' means, such that space is graphic but newline and tab
> aren't.  Maybe explicitly state that it means characters in the range
> 32-126 inclusive.

Ok, I've just installed this change.

Index: characters.el
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RCS file: /cvsroot/emacs/emacs/lisp/international/characters.el,v
retrieving revision 1.60
retrieving revision 1.61
diff -u -r1.60 -r1.61
--- characters.el       21 Jan 2007 02:56:40 -0000      1.60
+++ characters.el       13 Feb 2007 02:46:45 -0000      1.61
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
 
 ;; For each character set.
 
-(define-category ?a "ASCII")
+(define-category ?a "ASCII graphic characters 32-126 (ISO646 IRV:1983[4/0])")
 (define-category ?l "Latin")
 (define-category ?t "Thai")
 (define-category ?g "Greek")

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Kenichi Handa
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