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

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>
Cc: 43632 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#43632: Raw bytes printed as latin-1 in echo area and *Messages*
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2020 19:57:21 +0300

> From: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>
> Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2020 18:53:39 +0200
> Cc: 43632 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> --- a/lisp/simple.el
> +++ b/lisp/simple.el
> @@ -1797,6 +1797,7 @@ eval-expression
>    (let ((print-length (unless no-truncate eval-expression-print-length))
>          (print-level  (unless no-truncate eval-expression-print-level))
>          (eval-expression-print-maximum-character char-print-limit)
> +        (print-escape-nonascii t)
>          (deactivate-mark))
>      (let ((out (if insert-value (current-buffer) t)))
>        (prog1

We are going to disregard user preferences regarding escapes?  For an
obscure use case?  That doesn't make too much sense to me.

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