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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: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.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 14:05:25 +0300

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Cc: mattiase <at> acm.org,  43632 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2020 12:58:50 +0200
> 
> 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?

> (string-to-multibyte "\377")
> => "\377"
> 
> And the echo area says "\377", as expected.

That's unrelated: Emacs behaved the same before my changes.

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