Subject: Re: bug#52459: 28.0.90; prin1-to-string does not escape bidi control characters despite print-escape-control-characters=t

From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2021 22:41:09 +0300

On 14.12.2021 21:51, Daniel Mendler wrote:
> I am talking about creating string representations of Elisp values. I
> did not exclusively talk about strings. Strings are of course also Elisp
> values, but for a debugger UI it is useful to produce string
> representations of general Elisp values.

Then, also with clarification from A. Schwab, we could say that perhaps 
we'd be fine with having all print-escape-* variables (the existing ones 
and the one under proposal) only affecting 'prin1', but not 'message' 
and 'format' in general (used without '%S').