From: Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: how do i reset text coding?
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2023 14:55:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvlejwa5op.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAP_d_8XZFmOWb4J5DQpKkXgOFXLsxWiJZ=cBeQ0uag=HfQqXww@mail.gmail.com
> On your first screenshot, the mode line shows ‘=’ instead of a ‘U’.
> (info "(emacs) Mode Line") explains:
>
> ‘=’ means no conversion
> whatsoever, and is usually used for files containing non-textual data.
>
> so that’s your issue: somehow, for that buffer, encoding is not set
> correctly. (I don’t know why and where to look, so I will leave it to
> others to help you diagnose it.)
My guess is that there's a NUL byte in the file.
I use (setq inhibit-null-byte-detection t) in my ~/.emacs because I've
been bitten by those NUL bytes too many times.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-03-16 18:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-15 15:21 how do i reset text coding? jimdam, vani
2023-03-15 16:30 ` Yuri Khan
2023-03-15 16:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-16 18:55 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
2023-03-16 20:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2023-03-15 18:29 jimdam, vani
2023-03-16 5:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-15 5:43 jindam, vani
2023-03-15 12:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
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