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From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to find the character breaking the file encoding?
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2020 12:36:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d0apwbt5.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvtv453f5u.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>


On 2020-02-05, at 04:09, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

>> 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)?
>
> I think you can do:
>
>     C-x RET r utf-8 RET
>
> to force reading it as utf-8.  And then
>
>     C-x C-s
>
> should complain about the problematic element with a buffer that shows
> you the offender and lets you click on it to jump to its location.

Thanks Stefan and Óscar.  Before you answered me, I killed the buffer
and visited the file again, and the problem disappeared.  Go figure...

Thanks,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl



      reply	other threads:[~2020-02-08 11:36 UTC|newest]

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

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