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

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Message #129 received at 27270-done <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-done <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: Thu, 28 Apr 2022 10:58:33 -0700

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On 4/27/22 10:22, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> 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

Still not quite following, as I had been thinking more recently of 
changing only how display-raw-bytes-as-hex displays.

That being said, I looked into the code and found that what I was asking 
for would be quite a pain to implement - more trouble than it's worth, 
anyway - so I withdraw the suggestion and am closing the bug report.

I installed the attached, which documents the situation.

[0001-Document-807-etc.-in-raw-byte-display.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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