Subject: Re: bug#7279: 24.0.50; print-escape-multibyte not honored

From: Helmut Eller <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 21:04:38 +0200

* Andreas Schwab [2010-10-25 18:02] writes:

> Helmut Eller <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> This code:
>>
>> (with-temp-file "/tmp/x.x"
>>   (let ((print-escape-multibyte nil))
>>     (prin1 (string ?\x03bb) (current-buffer))))
>>
>> writes "\x03bb" to the file, i.e. it seems to ignore the value
>> of print-escape-multibyte.
>
> I cannot reprodoce that.  I also tried setting print-escape-multibyte to
> t and got the expected effect.  Note that print-escape-multibyte is nil
> by default anyway.

And this?

(with-temp-file "/tmp/x.x"
  (set-buffer-multibyte nil)
  (let ((print-escape-multibyte nil))
    (prin1 (string ?\x80) (current-buffer))))

Helmut