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bug#43632: Raw bytes printed as latin-1 in echo area and *Messages*
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#43632: Raw bytes printed as latin-1 in echo area and *Messages* |
Date: |
Sat, 26 Sep 2020 17:26:04 +0300 |
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase@acm.org>,
> 43632@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2020 16:22:10 +0200
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > It is not an anomaly. If you want to see escapes, set
> > print-escape-nonascii non-nil.
> >
> > Also note that what you see is the result of 'eval' printing the
> > result, the real result (as returned by prin1) is a unibyte string:
> >
> > (multibyte-string-p (prin1 "\377")) => nil
> >
> > (Yes, this is very confusing.)
>
> Could we do something about this confusion?
I don't want to say no, but I'm sure it is at least very hard.
> This came up because I just couldn't make sense of what I was seeing
> when trying to work with raw bytes -- it seemed to be that Emacs was
> auto-promoting unibyte strings (with bytes >127) to multibyte strings...
> until I started calling multibyte-string-p on everything instead.
We indeed convert to multibyte when we insert text into a multibyte
buffer, and that's a feature.
> I'm guessing I'm not the only person confused by this stuff.
You are not. I learned to use multibyte-string-p when in doubt.
- bug#43632: Raw bytes printed as latin-1 in echo area and *Messages*, Mattias Engdegård, 2020/09/26
- bug#43632: Raw bytes printed as latin-1 in echo area and *Messages*, Andreas Schwab, 2020/09/26
- bug#43632: Raw bytes printed as latin-1 in echo area and *Messages*, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/09/26
- bug#43632: Raw bytes printed as latin-1 in echo area and *Messages*, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2020/09/26
- bug#43632: Raw bytes printed as latin-1 in echo area and *Messages*,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#43632: Raw bytes printed as latin-1 in echo area and *Messages*, Mattias Engdegård, 2020/09/26
- bug#43632: Raw bytes printed as latin-1 in echo area and *Messages*, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/09/26
- bug#43632: Raw bytes printed as latin-1 in echo area and *Messages*, Mattias Engdegård, 2020/09/26
- bug#43632: Raw bytes printed as latin-1 in echo area and *Messages*, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/09/26
- bug#43632: Raw bytes printed as latin-1 in echo area and *Messages*, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/09/26
- bug#43632: Raw bytes printed as latin-1 in echo area and *Messages*, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2020/09/27
- bug#43632: Raw bytes printed as latin-1 in echo area and *Messages*, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/09/27
- bug#43632: Raw bytes printed as latin-1 in echo area and *Messages*, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2020/09/27
- bug#43632: Raw bytes printed as latin-1 in echo area and *Messages*, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/09/27
- bug#43632: Raw bytes printed as latin-1 in echo area and *Messages*, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2020/09/27