bug#8402: 24.0.50; Hex colors are not rendered correctly on OS X (Cocoa)

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Steve Purcell <steve@sanityinc.com> writes:

> If I set face colors using hex values, those colors are not displayed
> correctly.
>
> For example, 'M-x set-face-background RET default RET #fdf6e3 RET'
> results in a frame background color which, when sampled using Apple's
> "Digital Color Meter" utility, has hex value #fff8e8.

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
at the time.)

There was a patch suggested to alter ns_get_color, but I see that the
function has changed greatly since this was reported ten years ago.

Is this still an issue with recent Emacs versions?

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