GNU bug report logs - #43632
Raw bytes printed as latin-1 in echo area and *Messages*

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>

Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2020 12:52:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 43632 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#43632: Raw bytes printed as latin-1 in echo area and
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Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2020 21:53:01 +0200

26 sep. 2020 kl. 18.57 skrev Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>:

> We are going to disregard user preferences regarding escapes?

If you mean print-escape-nonascii then it has no effect on values printed from interactive Lisp evaluation in the *scratch* buffer (C-j) either. Since that behaviour is less deceptive and appears more useful in general, it would both bring some consistency to the mess and make users happier. It not only fixes M-: but also C-x C-e and C-M-x.

> I'd rather risk something like the below instead:

By all means -- almost as good and better then what we have today.
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