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: 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: bug#27270: display-raw-bytes-as-hex generates ambiguous output for Emacs strings
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2022 19:22:50 +0200

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

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

I said earlier:

> display-raw-bytes-as-hex is a display setting.  You want to change it so
> that the data output will be different, which will break all kinds of
> things, even if (when you use the Lisp reader) it'll end up being the
> same.


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