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

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 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: Thu, 8 Jun 2017 12:43:38 -0700

On 06/08/2017 11:59 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> That's a different issue. You said "\x905" was wrong visually, so I
> asked how is that different, visually, from "\2205".

It's wrong visually, because I know the syntax for strings in Emacs 
Lisp, and I know that "\x905" is supposed to be a 1-character string 
whereas "\2205" is a two-character string.

> Same thing happens when you copy/paste from an Emacs window which uses
> a display table

The difference is that I don't use display tables and don't want to use 
them. In contrast, I would like to use hexadecimal display, if it worked 
as well as octal does (which it does not).

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