People {and software implementations} have several times provided differing definitions of how the boxplot whiskers should be defined.
I strongly believe that this is very often a very bad idea!!
A boxplot should be a universal mean communication and so one should be *VERY* reluctant redefining the outliers.
I just find that Matlab (in their statistics toolbox) does *NOT* use such a silly 5% / 95% definition of the whiskers, at least not according to their documentation. That's very good (and I wonder where you, Larry, got the idea of the 5 / 95 %).
Using such a fixed percentage is really a very inferior idea to John Tukey's definition {the one in use in all implementations of S (including R) probably for close to 20 years now}.
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