GNU bug report logs - #7256
Convert non-ASCII letters to hexadecimal? vs control chars.

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: jidanni <at> jidanni.org

Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 04:51:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Merged with 7925, 9465

Found in versions 23.2.91, 23.3.50

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: bugs <at> gnus.org
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org, emacs-devel <at> gnu.org, rfrancoise <at> debian.org,
	bugs <at> gnus.org, jidanni <at> jidanni.org
Subject: Re: Convert non-ASCII letters to hexadecimal? vs control chars.
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 19:56:05 +0200

> From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 18:14:21 +0200
> Cc: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org, rfrancoise <at> debian.org, bugs <at> gnus.org,
> 	emacs-devel <at> gnu.org
> 
> Yeah, that seems really suboptimal, but I'm not sure what the fix should
> be.  Converting everything to hex seems rather odd, since that would
> make látin and unicode characters also be hexified, which is weird.

I think the right fix for control characters below 32 is to convert
them to the ^X ASCII representation.
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