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

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Message #121 received at 27270 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

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: Re: bug#27270: display-raw-bytes-as-hex generates ambiguous output
 for Emacs strings
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2022 10:21:02 -0700

On 4/27/22 05:13, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
>> 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.
> That will also change the output, which display-raw-bytes-as-hex is not
> supposed to do.

Could you explain what you mean by "change the output"? (Sorry, I'm not 
seeing it.)

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