From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Alexandre Oberlin" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Single unrecognized character wrecks entire display Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 15:13:45 +0200 Organization: TeraNews.com Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1345814115 31898 80.91.229.3 (24 Aug 2012 13:15:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 13:15:15 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 24 15:15:16 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1T4tjG-00028q-OJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Aug 2012 15:15:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:32909 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T4tjE-0003gl-VV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Aug 2012 09:15:12 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!npeer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post01.iad.highwinds-media.com!newsfe09.iad.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.00 (Linux) Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@teranews.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 13:13:47 UTC X-Received-Bytes: 1459 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:194127 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:86492 Archived-At: > it might be that C-x RET r utf-8 RET might do the > trick Thanks Stefan, but this does not work. Alexandre >> Is there a way to quickly spot the offending character within Emacs in >> such cases? > > Good question. Please send it as a feature request via > M-x report-emacs-bug. > > As for an answer, it might be that C-x RET r utf-8 RET might do the > trick (basically, the single offending byte caused Emacs to decide that > the file is not using utf-8 and read it as a binary file; so by > forcing the use of utf-8 you should get all the utf-8 encoded chars to > appear correctly and the invalid byte to appear as \234). > > > Stefan -- Using Opera's revolutionary email client: http://www.opera.com/mail/