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

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2022 13:29:09 +0200

Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]> writes:

>> I propose Emacs Lisp to move into camp 3
>
> This will break every use of \x in Emacs.

As Vasilij says, it won't break much of the in-tree code (which usually
looks like "\x3c\x7e\xff\xff\xff\xff\x7e\x3c"), but nevertheless, it'll
break stuff in subtle ways, so I don't think it's an option.

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