From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: want to go to the 2345th byte, not character Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 12:40:16 +0200 Message-ID: References: <874qbqjol4.fsf@jidanni.org> <87zmthcbih.fsf@jidanni.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1119607261 1373 80.91.229.2 (24 Jun 2005 10:01:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 10:01:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 24 12:00:59 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dlkys-0004kI-Ib for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 12:00:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dll5s-0007bn-TK for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 06:07:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dlkze-0004wY-L2 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 06:01:03 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DlkzZ-0004va-QQ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 06:00:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dlkz0-0004Xn-Oj for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 06:00:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.24] (helo=legolas.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DlkjA-0005YB-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 05:44:00 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-83-130-207-40.inter.net.il [83.130.207.40]) by legolas.inter.net.il (MOS 3.5.8-GR) with ESMTP id ERX23501 (AUTH halo1); Fri, 24 Jun 2005 12:40:17 +0300 (IDT) Original-To: Dan Jacobson In-reply-to: <87zmthcbih.fsf@jidanni.org> (message from Dan Jacobson on Thu, 23 Jun 2005 23:56:38 +0800) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:12327 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:12327 > From: Dan Jacobson > 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.