Subject: bug#43632: closed (Re: bug#43632: Raw bytes printed as latin-1 in echo area and *Messages*)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2020 05:57:02 +0000

Your bug report

#43632: Raw bytes printed as latin-1 in echo area and *Messages*

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#43632: Raw bytes printed as latin-1 in echo area and *Messages*
From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
To: Mattias Engdegård <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2020 08:56:23 +0300
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

> From: Mattias Engdegård <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2020 21:53:01 +0200
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 
> > I'd rather risk something like the below instead:
> 
> By all means -- almost as good and better then what we have today.

Thanks, installed on the master branch.  Let's see what, if anything,
this will break.

Subject: Raw bytes printed as latin-1 in echo area and *Messages*
From: Mattias Engdegård <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2020 14:51:22 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

 M-: "\377"
 => "ÿ"

in both the echo area and in *Messages*. The expected message is "\377".

The same thing happens with

 (prin1 "\377" t)

This anomaly was first observed by Lars Ingebrigtsen.