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bug#27270: display-raw-bytes-as-hex generates ambiguous output for Emacs
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#27270: display-raw-bytes-as-hex generates ambiguous output for Emacs strings |
Date: |
Sat, 10 Jun 2017 10:24:25 +0300 |
> Cc: npostavs@users.sourceforge.net, 27270@debbugs.gnu.org,
> v.schneidermann@gmail.com
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2017 16:44:46 -0700
>
> The idea is to add a new \X escape for character constants and strings. This
> escape would allow at most two hexadecimal digits, rather than the unlimited
> number of digits that \x does. For example, the Lisp string "\XABC" would be
> equivalent to the Lisp string "\xAB\ C", that is, it would be a two-character
> string containing the character U+00AB LEFT POINTING GUILLEMET followed by
> the
> character U+0043 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C.
So your proposal would mean a change to the Lisp reader to support
such escapes, right? If so, isn't such a change
backward-incompatible?
> Also, display-raw-bytes-as-hex would cause raw bytes to be displayed with
> this
> new X escape, rather than with with the x escape.
It could only do that for codepoints below 256 decimal, so that
limitation should be taken into account when deciding on the proposal.
- bug#27270: display-raw-bytes-as-hex generates ambiguous output for Emacs strings, (continued)
- bug#27270: display-raw-bytes-as-hex generates ambiguous output for Emacs strings, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/06/08
- bug#27270: display-raw-bytes-as-hex generates ambiguous output for Emacs strings, Paul Eggert, 2017/06/08
- bug#27270: display-raw-bytes-as-hex generates ambiguous output for Emacs strings, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/06/08
- bug#27270: display-raw-bytes-as-hex generates ambiguous output for Emacs strings, Paul Eggert, 2017/06/08
- bug#27270: display-raw-bytes-as-hex generates ambiguous output for Emacs strings, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/06/08
- bug#27270: display-raw-bytes-as-hex generates ambiguous output for Emacs strings, Paul Eggert, 2017/06/08
- bug#27270: display-raw-bytes-as-hex generates ambiguous output for Emacs strings, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/06/08
- bug#27270: display-raw-bytes-as-hex generates ambiguous output for Emacs strings, Paul Eggert, 2017/06/08
- bug#27270: display-raw-bytes-as-hex generates ambiguous output for Emacs strings, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/06/09
- bug#27270: display-raw-bytes-as-hex generates ambiguous output for Emacs strings, Paul Eggert, 2017/06/09
- bug#27270: display-raw-bytes-as-hex generates ambiguous output for Emacs strings,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#27270: display-raw-bytes-as-hex generates ambiguous output for Emacs strings, Paul Eggert, 2017/06/10
- bug#27270: display-raw-bytes-as-hex generates ambiguous output for Emacs strings, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/06/11
- bug#27270: display-raw-bytes-as-hex generates ambiguous output for Emacs strings, Paul Eggert, 2017/06/11
- bug#27270: display-raw-bytes-as-hex generates ambiguous output for Emacs strings, npostavs, 2017/06/10
- bug#27270: display-raw-bytes-as-hex generates ambiguous output for Emacs strings, Paul Eggert, 2017/06/10