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: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Raw bytes printed as latin-1 in echo area and *Messages*
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2020 14:51:22 +0200

 M-: "\377"
 => "ÿ"

in both the echo area and in *Messages*. The expected message is "\377".

The same thing happens with

 (prin1 "\377" t)

This anomaly was first observed by Lars Ingebrigtsen.
This bug report was last modified 4 years and 298 days ago.

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