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

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2017 10:26:28 -0700

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Then maybe the new hex display should use the \N{U+nnn} format?

If we're going to do that, we might as well use \unnnn, which is shorter. A 
downside of either syntax, though, is the implication that the raw byte is 
intended to be Unicode, which it typically is not. That is partly why I was 
thinking \x{nn} would be better: it'd be clearer to users.