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

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Message #19 received at 27270 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net
Cc: v.schneidermann <at> gmail.com, 27270 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu
Subject: Re: bug#27270: display-raw-bytes-as-hex generates ambiguous output
 for Emacs strings
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2017 18:20:41 +0300

> From: npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,  27270 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  v.schneidermann <at> gmail.com
> Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2017 21:07:25 -0400
> 
> > I meant that if I prefer hex to octal for buffer escapes, then when I
> > type this into *scratch*:
> >
> >   (format "J%cK" ?\u0080) C-j
> >
> > I almost surely would prefer to see the result displayed as
> > hexadecimal than as "J\200K" (the current behavior).
> 
> display-raw-bytes-as-hex does affect the result display for me (of
> course, since the result goes into the buffer), doesn't it for you?

Likewise here.

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