bug#70868: 30.0.50;

[Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>]

>> > If you are talking about the bug with 59, then Mattias suggested to
>> > exempt the semi-colon from the "display-small-numbers-as-characters"
>> > feature.
>> Yes - but independent of that I think we want to switch printing using
>> `prin1'.
> That will probably come with problems of its own...
> Stefan, WDYT?

`prin1` will have its share of downsides, I guess, but when printing
"arbitrary data", it's definitely a safer choice than `princ` which
is rarely the right thing (except when printing strings, obviously).

This said, I don't see the connection with printing small numbers as
chars.  To print chars using the ELisp syntax you need `prin1-char`:
AFAIK neither `prin1` nor `princ` work (at all).


        Stefan