From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: \201\236 appearing in emacs.desktop Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2017 13:19:18 +0200 Message-ID: <20170708111918.GF18691@tuxteam.de> References: <87bmovpb8c.fsf@skimble.plus.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1499512878 5000 195.159.176.226 (8 Jul 2017 11:21:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2017 11:21:18 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Sharon Kimble Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 08 13:21:11 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dTnnQ-0000pR-KY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Jul 2017 13:21:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60643 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dTnnW-0007Qf-23 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Jul 2017 07:21:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40353) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dTnms-0007NT-Ob for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Jul 2017 07:20:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dTnmp-0004Nx-Ef for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Jul 2017 07:20:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.tuxteam.de ([5.199.139.25]:53676 helo=tomasium.tuxteam.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dTnmp-0004IT-8L for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Jul 2017 07:20:31 -0400 Original-Received: from tomas by tomasium.tuxteam.de with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1dTnle-0005y6-Pj; Sat, 08 Jul 2017 13:19:18 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87bmovpb8c.fsf@skimble.plus.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 5.199.139.25 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:113736 Archived-At: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Jul 08, 2017 at 09:46:27AM +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: > > I've a problem that seems to have only developed this morning with my > 'emacs.desktop' file. It is being saved with '\201\236' appearing for > each entry which then stops it being reloaded on emacs restart. How can > I kill this problem please and get it back to working sanely again? My encoding crystal ball is pretty fuzzy on this one. At first blush it looks like a "double UTF-8 encoding" (an UTF-8 two-byte sequence which has been mistook for a single-byte-encoded-something and re-encoded by some well-meaning piece of software), but I can't actually identify it as such. Not sure I could help, but this could help to understand what's going on: - (some of) the output of "describe-coding-system" aka "C-h C" - your platform (Gnu/Linux, Mac, Windows, ??) (given your sig I assume a civilised platform, but better ask ;-) Cheers - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAllgv7YACgkQBcgs9XrR2kYqAgCfQFPWDZ2o0rXXw0DL/U71xSO5 1QYAnAxyvFk/euw6ZnbE7WEHbwyxec+K =4UGH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----