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

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Message #66 received at 27270 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

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: Re: bug#27270: display-raw-bytes-as-hex generates ambiguous output
 for Emacs strings
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2017 10:26:28 -0700

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Then maybe the new hex display should use the \N{U+nnn} format?

If we're going to do that, we might as well use \unnnn, which is shorter. A 
downside of either syntax, though, is the implication that the raw byte is 
intended to be Unicode, which it typically is not. That is partly why I was 
thinking \x{nn} would be better: it'd be clearer to users.

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