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Re: Rational Ranges - Rafal and Mike's opinion? (Bug 23393).
23.07.2018 20:09 Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> wrote:
> [...]
> Rafal,
>
> As localedata maintainer what is your opinion of changing the meaning
> of [a-z], [A-Z], and [0-9] to be rational ranges for *all* locales
> which mean exactly the latin character sequences you would expect
> e.g. {a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,l,n,m,o,p,q,r,s,t,u,v,w,x,y,z} for [a-z],
> [A-Z] likewise, and {0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9}?
Having discussed this off-list my answer is: I'm in favor of implementing
rational ranges treating [a-z], [A-Z], [0-9], and all their subsets as
code-point ranges. But I understand that this is possible only in 2.29.
Therefore for 2.28 I support this data-based solution.
Regards,
Rafal