bug#58168: string-lessp glitches and inconsistencies

["Mattias Engdegård" <mattias.engdegard@gmail.com>]

30 sep. 2022 kl. 15.52 skrev Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>:

> (string 4194176)
> => "\200"
> "\x80"
> => "\200"
> 
> which are kinda equal in some ways, and not in other ways.

And (string 128)
=> "\200"

but painted in a different colour so that the alert reader suspects that something odd is going on...
(What about printing it as "\u0080" instead? Only affects the C1 controls...)

> I think A makes the most intuitive sense, somehow.  But perhaps my
> intuition is off.

Can't say my intuition is any more reliable. On the other hand, intuition says that counter-intuitive solutions are very attractive, but I think it's just trying to confuse us.