Re: \201\236 appearing in emacs.desktop

[tomas@tuxteam.de]

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On Sat, Jul 08, 2017 at 01:23:22PM +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote:
> <tomas@tuxteam.de> writes:
> 
> > 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 [...]

[...]

> I think that this is the answer to what you're saying -
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> Coding system for saving this buffer:
>   U -- utf-8-unix (alias: mule-utf-8-unix)
[...]
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Pretty unsurprising. Sorry I can't say where those \201\236 are
coming from. Emacs is able to transparently represent "byte values"
which would be an encoding error within an otherwise UTF-8 encoded
buffer (actually it uses an extension of UTF-8 for that). To display
that, it resorts to those octal escapes, \nnn.

But no idea how they got in in the first place.

What happens if you delete them? Do they reappear next time around?

> And my sig is correct, I am running these setups.

Civilised :-)

> And thinking about it, these are all settings relating to utf-8 in my
> config file -

[...]

> I've separated the separate c ode blocks using #'s. Is it possible that
> all of those could be causing my problem? And if so, what can I chop out
> and yet still retain utf-8 working?

They all look pretty harmless to me. Actually they should be mostly
unnecessary, since the defaults should work more or less like that
(but note that I may well have missed some detail!).

Baffled
- -- tomás
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