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From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: How to find the character breaking the file encoding?
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2020 22:42:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a75yxc5q.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)

Hello all,

I have a large UTF-8 file (about 1.5MB) to which I add stuff regularly.
Recently, Emacs started saving it as a binary file.  I suspect I somehow
inserted a non-UTF-8 sequence of bytes there.  Is there any way Emacs
can help me finding it (other than me manually bisecting the file until
I find the offending place)?

TIA,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl



             reply	other threads:[~2020-02-04 21:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-04 21:42 Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2020-02-05  2:42 ` How to find the character breaking the file encoding? Óscar Fuentes
2020-02-05  3:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-02-08 11:36   ` Marcin Borkowski

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