GNU bug report logs - #58168
string-lessp glitches and inconsistencies

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Mattias Engdegård <mattias.engdegard <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 58168 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, larsi <at> gnus.org
Subject: bug#58168: string-lessp glitches and inconsistencies
Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2022 08:34:15 +0300

> Cc: 58168 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Mattias Engdegård <mattias.engdegard <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2022 22:12:24 +0200
> 
> 30 sep. 2022 kl. 15.52 skrev Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>:
> 
> > (string 4194176)
> > => "\200"
> > "\x80"
> > => "\200"
> > 
> > which are kinda equal in some ways, and not in other ways.
> 
> And (string 128)
> => "\200"
> 
> but painted in a different colour

It's the same color as the result of '(string 4194176)'.

>so that the alert reader suspects that something odd is going on...

Which it is.

> (What about printing it as "\u0080" instead?

NO!!  \u0080 is something entirely different.

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