From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: want to go to the 2345th byte, not character
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 12:40:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uslz8xckv.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zmthcbih.fsf@jidanni.org> (message from Dan Jacobson on Thu, 23 Jun 2005 23:56:38 +0800)
> From: Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>
> Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 23:56:38 +0800
>
> Eli> Can you tell why you need that?
>
> iconv said there was a problem at the 2345th character in that file
> and I wanted to see what the file looked like around there.
I hope you filed a bug report with the iconv maintainers, asking them
to report the character number as well as the byte number. I don't
see why Emacs should fix the entire world out there.
> Eli> use hexl-find-file for that.
>
> But then I can't see it in the native language I bet.
If hexl doesn't show decoded non-ASCII characters alongside the hex
byte values (I don't remember whether it should), then perhaps you
should request a feature for it to do so.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-24 10:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-22 17:20 want to go to the 2345th byte, not character Dan Jacobson
2005-06-23 4:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-06-23 15:56 ` Dan Jacobson
2005-06-23 21:05 ` Kevin Rodgers
2005-06-24 10:40 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2005-06-26 5:11 ` hexl vs. non-ASCII Dan Jacobson
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