From: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattiase@acm.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 37036@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#37036: [PATCH] Inconsistent ASCII and Latin char categories
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2019 12:48:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0B532B75-600B-4FA0-AE9C-BF1980295363@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <835zmxpi97.fsf@gnu.org>
tags 37036 wontfix
close 37036
stop
16 aug. 2019 kl. 11.33 skrev Eli Zaretskii <eliz@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.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-16 10:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-15 12:17 bug#37036: [PATCH] Inconsistent ASCII and Latin char categories Mattias Engdegård
2019-08-15 15:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-15 15:46 ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-08-15 16:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-15 16:30 ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-08-15 16:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-15 17:37 ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-08-15 19:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-15 19:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-15 22:19 ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-08-16 9:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-16 10:48 ` Mattias Engdegård [this message]
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