[Pkg-tcltk-devel] Bug#723090: tcl8.5: [:cntrl:] character class does not include 0x00-0x1f

[Bruce Stephens]

Package: tcl8.5
Version: 8.5.14-5
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

I have an expect script that tries to match ([^[:cntrl:]]*), and it
also matches the CRs at the end of a line.  On inspection, that's
because controlRangeTable[] and controlCharTable[] do not contain the
normal ASCII control characters (which I think are also Unicode
control characters).  In tcl8.4, they are included (though by the
looks of it it's only ASCII since it only seems to include 0x0-0x1f
and 0x7f-0x9f).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers oldstable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages tcl8.5 depends on:
ii  libc6      2.17-92+b1
ii  libtcl8.5  8.5.14-5

tcl8.5 recommends no packages.

Versions of packages tcl8.5 suggests:
pn  tcl-tclreadline  <none>

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