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28.0.90; prin1-to-string does not escape bidi control characters despite print-escape-control-characters=t

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Message #86 received at 52459 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Daniel Mendler <mail <at> daniel-mendler.de>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 52459 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#52459: 28.0.90; prin1-to-string does not escape bidi control
 characters despite print-escape-control-characters=t
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').

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