From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: how to find encoding violations in Emacs buffer?
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 21:39:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <457F1399.3040008@student.lu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1165947493.201071.294760@l12g2000cwl.googlegroups.com>
riccardo.murri@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello,
>
> from time to time, a buffer gets some spurious character in and Emacs
> refuses to save it in the correct encoding. So I am presented with the
> choice of other different encodings.
>
> However, in most of the cases, I know that the file *should* be UTF-8
> encoded. So I would rather like to find out where the offending
> character is and correct it, instead of choosing a different encoding.
>
> Is there any function/package/elisp hack to find/highlight characters
> in a buffer that Emacs could not encode as UTF-8?
>
> Thank you for any hint!
>
> Riccardo
>
> P.S. Currently running 22.0.90
>
I think someone said there was, but I have never seen it though I have
had these problem quite often. Can't remember the details now.
Which platform are you on? I am using MS Windows (2000 or XP).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-12 20:39 UTC|newest]
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2006-12-12 18:18 how to find encoding violations in Emacs buffer? riccardo.murri
2006-12-12 20:39 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2006-12-12 20:56 ` Riccardo Murri
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2006-12-12 23:45 ` B. T. Raven
2006-12-13 4:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1814.1165984004.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-12-13 8:39 ` riccardo.murri
2006-12-13 10:45 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.1823.1166006732.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-12-13 12:34 ` riccardo.murri
2006-12-13 12:55 ` Peter Dyballa
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