From 4add5217dbebc0ac6ab97a84eb10546c766df57b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de>
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 14:39:38 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] *** empty log message ***

---
 NEWS | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 5860db07e..f94738126 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -262,6 +262,14 @@ The starred items are new.
 
 * Changes to Scheme functions and syntax
 
+** Character classifiers work for non-ASCII characters.
+
+The predicates `char-alphabetic?', `char-numeric?',
+`char-whitespace?', `char-lower?', `char-upper?' and `char-is-both?'
+no longer check whether their arguments are ASCII characters.
+Previously, a character would only be considered alphabetic when it
+was also ASCII, for example.
+
 ** Previously deprecated Scheme functions have been removed:
 
   tag - no replacement.