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

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Message #43 received at 43632 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: mattiase <at> acm.org, 43632 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#43632: Raw bytes printed as latin-1 in echo area and
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Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2020 12:58:50 +0200

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

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

That's definitely an improvement, thanks.  It's still slightly confusing
(but not as confusing as before).

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).

(string-to-multibyte "\377")
=> "\377"

And the echo area says "\377", as expected.

Hm.  Or perhaps that's not confusing?

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