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

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Message #52 received at 27270 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: v.schneidermann <at> gmail.com, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
 27270 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#27270: display-raw-bytes-as-hex generates ambiguous output
 for Emacs strings
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2017 18:52:31 -0400

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

> But this means the problem is even worse than I thought. If I evaluate
> this in *scratch* in a terminal session running emacs -nw:
>
> (setq display-raw-bytes-as-hex t) C-j
> (format "%c%c" ?\u0090 ?5) C-j

I wonder what you do about low bytes, as in (format "^G%c" ?\a).  Do
those just not come up very much?  It's too bad there's no copying
counterpart to bracketed paste mode...

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