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bug#42384: octal escape sequences old fashioned
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#42384: octal escape sequences old fashioned |
Date: |
Thu, 16 Jul 2020 19:42:51 +0300 |
> From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
> <jidanni@jidanni.org>
> Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2020 08:50:28 +0800
> Cc: rms@gnu.org
>
> (info "(emacs) Text Display") says:
>
> The raw bytes with codes ‘U+0080’ (octal 200) through ‘U+009F’ (octal
> 237) are displayed as “octal escape sequences”, with the ‘escape-glyph’
> face. For instance, character code ‘U+0098’ (octal 230) is displayed as
> ‘\230’. If you change the buffer-local variable ‘ctl-arrow’ to ‘nil’,
> the ASCII control characters are also displayed as octal escape
> sequences instead of caret escape sequences.
>
> OK but octal is rather old fashioned so the user should be given the
> choice of hex, etc.
We have display-raw-bytes-as-hex for that very reason.