in both multibyte and unibyte representations, because only the
@acronym{ASCII} characters are excluded.
-Starting in Emacs 21, a character alternative can also specify named
+A character alternative can also specify named
character classes (@pxref{Char Classes}). This is a POSIX feature whose
syntax is @samp{[:@var{class}:]}. Using a character class is equivalent
to mentioning each of the characters in that class; but the latter is
@cindex character classes in regexp
Here is a table of the classes you can use in a character alternative,
-in Emacs 21, and what they mean:
+and what they mean:
@table @samp
@item [:ascii:]