bug#27270: display-raw-bytes-as-hex generates ambiguous output for Emacs strings

[Paul Eggert]

On 4/27/22 10:22, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:
>
> > Could you explain what you mean by "change the output"? (Sorry, I'm
> > not seeing it.)
>
> I said earlier:
>
> > display-raw-bytes-as-hex is a display setting.  You want to change it so
> > that the data output will be different

Still not quite following, as I had been thinking more recently of 
changing only how display-raw-bytes-as-hex displays.

That being said, I looked into the code and found that what I was asking 
for would be quite a pain to implement - more trouble than it's worth, 
anyway - so I withdraw the suggestion and am closing the bug report.

I installed the attached, which documents the situation.

0001-Document-807-etc.-in-raw-byte-display.patch
Description: Text Data