From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Sharon Kimble Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: \201\236 appearing in emacs.desktop Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2017 18:02:59 +0100 Message-ID: <87eftq7tfg.fsf@skimble.plus.com> References: <87bmovpb8c.fsf@skimble.plus.com> <20170708111918.GF18691@tuxteam.de> <87h8ynm81x.fsf@skimble.plus.com> <20170708152050.GB29492@tuxteam.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1499533468 17099 195.159.176.226 (8 Jul 2017 17:04:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2017 17:04:28 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: tomas@tuxteam.de Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 08 19:04:24 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dTt9a-0004A6-Kd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Jul 2017 19:04:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33542 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dTt9g-0003WG-1g for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Jul 2017 13:04:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60849) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dTt8V-0003B3-8x for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Jul 2017 13:03:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dTt8S-0003WR-60 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Jul 2017 13:03:15 -0400 Original-Received: from avasout01.plus.net ([84.93.230.227]:39906) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dTt8R-0003Vo-VF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Jul 2017 13:03:12 -0400 Original-Received: from London.london ([31.185.147.13]) by avasout01 with smtp id iH371v0030HaZcX01H38fB; Sat, 08 Jul 2017 18:03:08 +0100 X-CM-Score: 0.00 X-CNFS-Analysis: v=2.2 cv=CfV43Pjl c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=z1IzoifO1pmR3EmH2pbmig==:117 a=z1IzoifO1pmR3EmH2pbmig==:17 a=LlzXLoV6AAAA:8 a=iI7HsYTVAAAA:8 a=bAHfVwKlAAAA:8 a=6wLeOEGnLgWYpynV9RsA:9 a=hVPHksP7YtpyOrGB:21 a=uW-UwYyh5OHhrxth:21 a=rcb6h67yKXoN_bm_3UMA:9 a=ONNS8QRKHyMA:10 a=diwpeB1DDhFXqWA7J4Up:22 a=KxyM1Xthmv57RbWRIpnN:22 a=fjrkRJ71zQ2jzMzczd-K:22 X-AUTH: skimble@:2500 In-Reply-To: <20170708152050.GB29492@tuxteam.de> (tomas@tuxteam.de's message of "Sat, 8 Jul 2017 17:20:50 +0200") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x (no timestamps) [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 84.93.230.227 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:113742 Archived-At: --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable tomas@tuxteam.de writes: > On Sat, Jul 08, 2017 at 01:23:22PM +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> writes: >>=20 >> > On Sat, Jul 08, 2017 at 09:46:27AM +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> >>=20 >> >> I've a problem that seems to have only developed this morning with my >> >> 'emacs.desktop' file [...] > > [...] > >> I think that this is the answer to what you're saying - >>=20 >> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- >> Coding system for saving this buffer: >> U -- utf-8-unix (alias: mule-utf-8-unix) > [...] >> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > Pretty unsurprising. Sorry I can't say where those \201\236 are > coming from. Emacs is able to transparently represent "byte values" > which would be an encoding error within an otherwise UTF-8 encoded > buffer (actually it uses an extension of UTF-8 for that). To display > that, it resorts to those octal escapes, \nnn. > > But no idea how they got in in the first place. > > What happens if you delete them? Do they reappear next time around? Thanks Tomas. Yes. The only way round it that I've found is once 'emacs.desktop' gets corrupted like that is to delete it and then rebuild my previous opened buffers from memory. > >> And my sig is correct, I am running these setups. > > Civilised :-) > >> And thinking about it, these are all settings relating to utf-8 in my >> config file - > > [...] > >> I've separated the separate c ode blocks using #'s. Is it possible that >> all of those could be causing my problem? And if so, what can I chop out >> and yet still retain utf-8 working? > > They all look pretty harmless to me. Actually they should be mostly > unnecessary, since the defaults should work more or less like that > (but note that I may well have missed some detail!). > And now that I've been looking at all my old 'emacs.desktop' files, I can't find any where its corrupted, so it seems to have corrected itself this time. For a while at least. Thanks Sharon. =2D-=20 A taste of linux =3D http://www.sharons.org.uk TGmeds =3D http://www.tgmeds.org.uk DrugFacts =3D https://www.drugfacts.org.uk=20=20 Debian 9.0, fluxbox 1.3.5-2, emacs 25.1.1, org-mode 9.0.9 --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEELSc/6QwVBIYugJDbNoGAGQr4g1sFAllhEEQACgkQNoGAGQr4 g1uxig/8CvOM5/TiTjK9v3rrjJPqCH3ZSOS+6RrHsQ2v39Bnsdmr3FjZCHJqv/LH BvBbjP7wPJPXue+blVqzqm9e6jRLGu+AVxTkrlhTAcWFVJU9zEUgonDlat6Ptukx SISMHXn2nxzBW943wwO653Y+3XVQQ4e/Ec6o39iO8Wx19Zal5xS9uf2HeS5xhYxH HcnsCgsIfRnpevGItb7ic4nCyXao+btyC3kSak6/oY0OytOxZRtN7pupQrNJvQ1f 1ldsaH6HGreqcQG0Rq0Cj0FMwJGNPxX8iNSLB7si3af/DKqWcHvi2Kd1+WpSr9F8 bJbDz/h+QwLxwyxRGf2EKu+BPByPJ/hXuXi7xvZwPx3/HP0WCziFx7lYyzkBn1XY 2ZjiwnDqepBJ+tbmryHof15F1e5KQKrib2yu5c0Wg9YmATsYX69dQlk0L887DhcR py+q144duiA94PONbUMlo1z0RFOfpKsyCmwvu+dBG/nTGOsHjqgkcGVzp5QCWDHV 09jQ1iGfLugJc5GQ73IJAaO16jEl9EPpz796eiSelrHD2yPrA2tBCvJR2kpR4i6K pbqDf4bWS+Gtl0G5QaTI9DQpmfEdLbov5kw3+iLlSi+M3tpekOuXc/JDWDprmYHr 8Q7/46hHUuNTb2Ud7pA/viE5bU5bN90rhYe8NdTpPyVV0EskuZs= =a9OS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--