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

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2020 14:05:25 +0300

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2020 12:58:50 +0200
> 
> In the *scratch* buffer, C-x C-e:
> 
> "\377"
> => "\377"
> 
> But the echo area says "\xff".
> 
> because I have (setq display-raw-bytes-as-hex t).

So you've explicitly asked for that, no?

> (string-to-multibyte "\377")
> => "\377"
> 
> And the echo area says "\377", as expected.

That's unrelated: Emacs behaved the same before my changes.