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bug#44155: Print integers as characters


From: Juri Linkov
Subject: bug#44155: Print integers as characters
Date: Sun, 01 Nov 2020 22:16:51 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

>> Problem of ambiguous numbers 128 and 4194176 that are both printed as ?\200.
>
> Octal escapes are generally a sign of a raw byte.  This is not
> different from buffer display -- how do you know what does ?\200 mean
> inside buffer text?
>
>> ?\200 and 128 are two forms of the same character too.
>
> See my question above.  I don't think what you say is true.

Typing 'C-x C-e' after ?\200 displays: 128 (#o200, #x80, ?\x80)





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