GNU bug report logs - #27270
display-raw-bytes-as-hex generates ambiguous output for Emacs strings

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2017 03:59:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: moreinfo

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, v.schneidermann <at> gmail.com, 27270 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net
Subject: bug#27270: display-raw-bytes-as-hex generates ambiguous output for Emacs strings
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2022 09:48:35 -0700

On 4/26/22 03:06, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> Your last suggestion was to output
> 
> (format "%cf" 129)
> => "\x81\x66"
> 
> I think?  Which is changing the data output.

Oh, right. Scratch that. Let's just use "\uXXXX" if multibyte, "\OOO" 
(octal) if unibyte. (This is only when the character precedes a hex 
digit.) That's simpler anyway.
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