Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Cc: eller.helmut@gmail.com, 32252@debbugs.gnu.org
>> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
>>
>> That being said, it appears that there are enough qualms about the
>> change that I plan to install it with the new variable set the other
>> way. I.e., the default will be the current behavior and people can set
>> the new variable to get the new behavior, to try it this behavior out to
>> see whether they have problems.
> 
> Thank you.

OK, I installed the attached patch which does that, and am closing the bug 
report. I plan to run with binary-as-unsigned set to nil and to report any 
problems I encounter. I encourage others (particularly skeptics :-) to do the same.