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

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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: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>
Cc: 43632 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#43632: Raw bytes printed as latin-1 in echo area and *Messages*
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2020 16:05:14 +0200

On Sep 26 2020, Mattias Engdegård wrote:

>  M-: "\377"
>  => "ÿ"
>
> in both the echo area and in *Messages*. The expected message is "\377".

That's because "\377" is a unibyte string.

Andreas.

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