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On Jun 04 2024, Alan Mackenzie wrote:

> That may well be, but the contents of that buffer don't reflect the
> contents of the original string which was printed by pp.

pp produces a *quoted* printed representation of the argument.

ELISP> (read (pp-to-string "foo \"bar\" baz"))
"foo \"bar\" baz"

If you want to print the literal contents of a string use princ.

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