bug#42384: closed (octal escape sequences old fashioned)

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Your message dated Fri, 17 Jul 2020 17:42:05 +0300
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has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #42384,
regarding octal escape sequences old fashioned
to be marked as done.

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> octal escape sequences old fashioned
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> Thu, 16 Jul 2020 08:50:28 +0800
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> (info "(emacs) Text Display") says:
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>       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.
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> OK but octal is rather old fashioned so the user should be given the
> choice of hex, etc.
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> emacs-version "26.3"
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> Re: bug#42384: octal escape sequences old fashioned
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> Fri, 17 Jul 2020 17:42:05 +0300
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> > From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>
> > Cc: 42384@debbugs.gnu.org,  rms@gnu.org, rpluim@gmail.com
> > Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2020 02:16:01 +0800
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> > OK Good.
> > Please be sure display-raw-bytes-as-hex is also mentioned on
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