On 09 Oct 2013, at 10:34 PM, Jeff Trawick <[email protected]> wrote:

> The function is trying to escape any binary values that could conceivably 
> cause problems when printed to the terminal, whether or not those values 
> happen to have a C escape sequence "shortcut".  The escaping is done 
> regardless IIUC.  It looks like the code which uses \e is just trying to use 
> well-known shortcuts for certain escape sequences, and if the \e code is 
> removed then it will use the hex equivalent.

This is true.

I have backported the API in r1530799, would it be possible to take a look for 
me?

Regards,
Graham
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