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

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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: bug#43632: Raw bytes printed as latin-1 in echo area and *Messages*
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2020 13:13:31 +0200

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

>> 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?

I have, so I guess the only confusing thing is that it's still "\377" in
the scratch buffer?

>> (string-to-multibyte "\377")
>> => "\377"
>> 
>> And the echo area says "\377", as expected.
>
> That's unrelated: Emacs behaved the same before my changes.

Yup.  But don't we call these "raw bytes", too?  I was just idly wondering
whether the display of these should also be affected by
`display-raw-bytes-as-hex'...

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