bug#43632: Raw bytes printed as latin-1 in echo area and *Messages*

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: mattiase@acm.org,  43632@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2020 13:36:41 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> >> (string-to-multibyte "\377")
> >> >> => "\377"
> >> >> 
> >> >> And the echo area says "\377", as expected.
> >> >
> >> > That's unrelated: Emacs behaved the same before my changes.
> >> 
> >> Yup.  But don't we call these "raw bytes", too?  I was just idly wondering
> >> whether the display of these should also be affected by
> >> `display-raw-bytes-as-hex'...
> >
> > No, because what you have in *scratch* is again a string of 4 ASCII
> > characters.
> 
> Here I was talking about what's displayed in the echo area.  :-)

That, too, is a string of 4 ASCII characters.