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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: npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net
Cc: v.schneidermann <at> gmail.com, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 27270 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#27270: display-raw-bytes-as-hex generates ambiguous output for Emacs strings
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2017 17:10:38 -0700

On 06/10/2017 03:52 PM, npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net wrote:
> I wonder what you do about low bytes, as in (format "^G%c" ?\a).  Do
> those just not come up very much?

They didn't in my examples. :-)  But yes, they do happen, it's just that 
when they mess things up it tends to be more obvious. It might be nice, 
I suppose, if there were an option to make them not happen.

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