From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: v.schneidermann@gmail.com, 27270@debbugs.gnu.org,
npostavs@users.sourceforge.net
Subject: bug#27270: display-raw-bytes-as-hex generates ambiguous output for Emacs strings
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2022 16:00:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k0bfsxvk.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2202b54b-606f-0a10-abf7-5cb1a9164897@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Fri, 9 Jun 2017 16:44:46 -0700")
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Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:
> 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.
This was four years ago, but I don't think any steps were taken in this
direction, beyond marking the raw bytes more clearly:
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Even in *scratch*, where font-locking overrode those, I think?
The issue still remains -- if you do this in emacs -nw:
(format "%c5" 128)
"5"
And cut and paste that do a different Emacs, you get the string
"\x805"
=> "ࠅ"
But... we've had this format for half a decade now, and this doesn't
really seem to be a problem in practice, so while the format is somewhat
ambiguous, I tend to think that introducing a new syntax just to fix it
isn't worth it. Especially a syntax like \x{80}, which was one of the
suggestions -- the idea, after all, is to make display prettier and more
readable.
Any further opinions?
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Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-07 3:57 bug#27270: display-raw-bytes-as-hex generates ambiguous output for Emacs strings Paul Eggert
2017-06-07 5:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-08 0:49 ` Paul Eggert
2017-06-08 1:07 ` npostavs
2017-06-08 15:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-08 15:56 ` Paul Eggert
2017-06-08 16:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-08 16:24 ` Paul Eggert
2017-06-08 18:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-08 19:43 ` Paul Eggert
2017-06-08 19:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-08 20:35 ` Paul Eggert
2017-06-09 6:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-09 23:44 ` Paul Eggert
2017-06-10 7:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-11 0:04 ` Paul Eggert
2017-06-11 14:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-11 17:26 ` Paul Eggert
2017-09-02 13:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-23 14:00 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2022-04-24 7:10 ` Paul Eggert
2022-04-24 9:56 ` Vasilij Schneidermann
2022-04-24 10:26 ` Andreas Schwab
2022-04-24 10:51 ` Vasilij Schneidermann
2022-04-24 11:01 ` Andreas Schwab
2022-04-24 11:29 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-24 22:46 ` Paul Eggert
2022-04-24 11:24 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-24 22:35 ` Paul Eggert
2022-04-25 7:40 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-25 16:49 ` Paul Eggert
2022-04-26 10:06 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-26 16:48 ` Paul Eggert
2022-04-27 12:13 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-27 17:21 ` Paul Eggert
2022-04-27 17:22 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-28 17:58 ` Paul Eggert
2017-06-10 22:52 ` npostavs
2017-06-11 0:10 ` Paul Eggert
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