<p>Snippet names need to be limited otherwise there is no way to tell when to stop searching backwards for the snippet name.  The use of wordchars is intended to exclude programming language operator characters.</p>
<p>But since its impractical to list all Unicode code points in wordchars, all non-ASCII code points are included as well.</p>
<p>The manual could be updated to be more explicit.</p>

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