print-escape-nonascii
print-escape-nonascii is a variable defined in `C source code
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Its value is nilDocumentation: Non-nil means print unibyte non-ASCII chars in strings as \OOO. (OOO is the octal representation of the character code.) Only single-byte characters are affected, and only in `prin1'. When the output goes in a multibyte buffer, this feature is enabled regardless of the value of the variable.