Subject: 24.0.50; print-escape-multibyte not honored

From: Helmut Eller <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 13:39:23 +0200

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.

In GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.12)
 of 2010-10-23 on ix
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10402000
configured using `configure  '--with-gif=no''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1-unix
  default enable-multibyte-characters: nil