It is a GUI session: emacs 25.0.50 does shows \uNNNN escapes in GUI session.



On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 10:27 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> From: Boris Kheyfets <kheyfboris@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2015 00:41:40 +0300
> Cc: 20906@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> Yep, sounds the same.

Is this in a GUI session or in a text-mode (-nw) session?

I don't think Emacs shows \uNNNN escapes in GUI sessions.