Re: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen.

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>]

David Kastrup writes:
 > "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org> writes:

 > > I meant pre-existing corruption [...]
 > 
 > That interpretation is not the business of the editor.

Precisely my point.  The editor has *no* way to interpret at the point
of encountering the invalid sequence, and therefore it should *stop*
and ask the user what to do.  That doesn't mean it should throw away
the data, but it sure does mean that it should not continue as though
there is valid data in the buffer.

Emacs is welcome to do that, but I am sure you will get bug reports
about it.