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Thu, 8 Jun 2017 12:43:38 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <83y3t271ar.fsf@gnu.org> Content-Language: en-US X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:133406 Archived-At: On 06/08/2017 11:59 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > That's a different issue. You said "\x905" was wrong visually, so I > asked how is that different, visually, from "\2205". It's wrong visually, because I know the syntax for strings in Emacs Lisp, and I know that "\x905" is supposed to be a 1-character string whereas "\2205" is a two-character string. > Same thing happens when you copy/paste from an Emacs window which uses > a display table The difference is that I don't use display tables and don't want to use them. In contrast, I would like to use hexadecimal display, if it worked as well as octal does (which it does not).