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

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Mattias Engdegård <mattias.engdegard <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2022 16:25:01 UTC

Severity: normal

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Mattias Engdegård <mattias.engdegard <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 58168 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bug#58168: string-lessp glitches and inconsistencies
Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2022 15:43:55 +0200

Mattias Engdegård <mattias.engdegard <at> gmail.com> writes:

> depending on display-raw-bytes-as-hex. With the patch, we get
>
> € €  €C1: \u0080 raw: \200.
> or
>    C1: \u0080 raw: \x80.
>
> which should satisfy everyone. What about it?

There was a very long thread about changing this output in a bug report
somewhere, and we decided not to, because all the alternatives were
worse than what we have.

*handwaves at bug tracker*
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