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commit 749dd5d88c954329e6d6c71075543f4fc2c9bc6f
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Thu Sep 24 19:51:42 2026 -0500
NEWS: Clarify old 1.24.0 item.
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NEWS | 14 +++++++-------
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index c72b19201..129c83934 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -338,13 +338,13 @@ troff
parameterized escape sequences `\A`, `\b`, `\o`, `\w`, `\X`, and
`\Z`.
-* GNU troff no longer accepts C0 controls or Latin-1 Supplement
- characters in identifiers. We prohibit C0 controls to make the
- language less tolerant of unreadable input, and Latin-1 Supplement
- code points to enable us to pivot to reading UTF-8-encoded input in a
- future release. (Thus, we plan for Latin-1 Supplement characters to
- again be accepted in identifiers, but only as components of multibyte
- UTF-8 sequences.)
+* GNU troff no longer accepts C0 control codes or eight-bit Latin-1
+ Supplement characters in identifiers. We prohibit C0 controls to
+ make the language less tolerant of unreadable input, and Latin-1
+ Supplement code points to enable us to pivot to reading UTF-8-encoded
+ input in a future release. (Thus, we plan for Latin-1 Supplement
+ character codes to again be accepted in identifiers, but only as
+ components of multibyte UTF-8 sequences.)
* The `color`, `cp`, `kern`, `linetabs`, and `vpt` requests now
interpret arguments with negative values as instructions to disable
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