Subject: Re: bug#27270: display-raw-bytes-as-hex generates ambiguous output for Emacs strings

From: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2017 18:52:31 -0400

severity 27270 wishlist
quit

Paul Eggert <[email-masked]> writes:

> But this means the problem is even worse than I thought. If I evaluate
> this in *scratch* in a terminal session running emacs -nw:
>
> (setq display-raw-bytes-as-hex t) C-j
> (format "%c%c" ?\u0090 ?5) C-j

I wonder what you do about low bytes, as in (format "^G%c" ?\a).  Do
those just not come up very much?  It's too bad there's no copying
counterpart to bracketed paste mode...