Subject: bug#70076: 28.3; xml-escape-string parse issue

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2024 21:08:12 +0300

> Cc: Protesilaos Stavrou <[email-masked]>
> From: "D. Schmudde" <[email-masked]>
> Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2024 16:44:48 +0100
> 
> Starting with `emacs -Q`:
> 
> (require 'xml)
> (xml-escape-string "And now it\342\200\231s all this")
> 
> The result is: `xml-escape-string: Invalid XML character: 4194274, 
> 11`
> 
> I expect that the string will parse correctly with these escape 
> characters. Or is this expectation wrong?

Your expectation is wrong, AFAIU: you are inserting a unibyte string
(a string made out of raw bytes) instead of inserting a non-ASCII
multibyte string, which is what XML expects.

Why did you need to insert those bytes, and where did they come from?