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display-raw-bytes-as-hex generates ambiguous output for Emacs strings

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Message #112 received at 27270 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, v.schneidermann <at> gmail.com,
 27270 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: bug#27270: display-raw-bytes-as-hex generates ambiguous output
 for Emacs strings
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2022 12:06:56 +0200

Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu> writes:

>> display-raw-bytes-as-hex is a display setting.  You want to change it so
>> that the data output will be different
>
> No, I would like to change only the display. (I had suggested
> otherwise in comment #5 of this bug report, but was mistaken and took
> that suggestion back in later comments.)

Your last suggestion was to output

(format "%cf" 129)
=> "\x81\x66"

I think?  Which is changing the data output.

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