Clarifying ispunct behavior difference between Julia and C in documen…

…tation (#56727) Fixes #56680. This PR updates the documentation for the ispunct function in Julia to explicitly note its differing behavior from the similarly named function in C. --------- Co-authored-by: Lilith Orion Hafner <[email protected]>
JuliaLang · Dec 1, 2024 · ea42112 · ea42112
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diff --git a/base/strings/unicode.jl b/base/strings/unicode.jl
@@ -534,11 +534,17 @@ iscntrl(c::AbstractChar) = c <= '\x1f' || '\x7f' <= c <= '\u9f'
 Tests whether a character belongs to the Unicode general category Punctuation, i.e. a
 character whose category code begins with 'P'.
 
+!!! note
+    This behavior is different from the `ispunct` function in C.
+
 # Examples
 ```jldoctest
 julia> ispunct('α')
 false
 
+julia> ispunct('=')
+false
+
 julia> ispunct('/')
 true