From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
To: Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble.plus.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: \201\236 appearing in emacs.desktop
Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2017 13:19:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170708111918.GF18691@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bmovpb8c.fsf@skimble.plus.com>
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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. It is being saved with '\201\236' appearing for
> each entry which then stops it being reloaded on emacs restart. How can
> I kill this problem please and get it back to working sanely again?
My encoding crystal ball is pretty fuzzy on this one. At first blush
it looks like a "double UTF-8 encoding" (an UTF-8 two-byte sequence which
has been mistook for a single-byte-encoded-something and re-encoded by
some well-meaning piece of software), but I can't actually identify it
as such. Not sure I could help, but this could help to understand what's
going on:
- (some of) the output of "describe-coding-system" aka "C-h C"
- your platform (Gnu/Linux, Mac, Windows, ??)
(given your sig I assume a civilised platform, but better ask ;-)
Cheers
- -- tomás
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-08 11:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-08 8:46 \201\236 appearing in emacs.desktop Sharon Kimble
2017-07-08 11:19 ` tomas [this message]
2017-07-08 12:23 ` Sharon Kimble
2017-07-08 15:20 ` tomas
2017-07-08 15:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-08 17:02 ` Sharon Kimble
2017-07-09 9:56 ` tomas
2017-07-09 16:49 ` Sharon Kimble
2017-07-09 19:48 ` tomas
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