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From: Zhang Haijun <ccsmile2008@outlook.com>
To: Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
	"emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: 26.1.50; Emacs can't decode the text file on opening the file, but can decode it on revert-buffer
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2018 14:08:46 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <SG2PR0601MB1405DFF34B9E61451FF008C2A8CA0@SG2PR0601MB1405.apcprd06.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <492691df-5413-2f32-e9dc-8fe2ec6ccb14@orcon.net.nz>



On 11/05/2018 05:39 PM, Phil Sainty wrote:
> On 5/11/18 10:00 PM, Zhang Haijun wrote:
>> On 11/05/2018 01:13 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>> They are not invalid bytes, they are zero bytes.  You can search for
>>> them like this:
>>>
>>>     C-s C-q C-SPC
>>
>> I mean chars like ^@, ^H and \342\200\230. How to search them?
> 
> ^@ is the null char and Eli just showed you how to search for it.
> 
> Similarly, C-s C-q C-h will search for a ^H char.
> 
> Assuming \342\200\230 is three octal characters then, I would probably
> resort to editing the search string and using `insert-char':
> 
> C-s M-e
> C-x 8 RET #o342 RET
> etc...
> 
> If you can *see* an instance of the character already, you might just
> move point to that character and use C-s C-w (and maybe a bit of C-M-w
> if that grabs too many chars).
> 
> Or if you mean "any non-ascii character" then the regexp [^[:ascii:]]
> will match those.
> 
> 
> -Phil
> 

I don't know the specific char to search. As the orignal problem I met, 
I opened the text file. Emacs can't decode it and it didn't show any 
warning message like position of the null byte. Then what should I do to 
find the null byte(or other bytes which can prevent emacs from decoding)?

How to search these unknown bytes?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-11-05 14:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-04  8:44 26.1.50; Emacs can't decode the text file on opening the file, but can decode it on revert-buffer Zhang Haijun
2018-11-04  9:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]   ` <16B3CA28-C893-4854-AD64-1C224C1EDDB2@outlook.com>
2018-11-04 14:49     ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]       ` <B213388B-58E6-4F5B-8CE8-79AC5AD3062B@outlook.com>
2018-11-04 17:13         ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-05  8:59           ` Zhang Haijun
2018-11-05  9:00           ` Zhang Haijun
2018-11-05  9:00           ` Zhang Haijun
2018-11-05  9:39             ` Phil Sainty
2018-11-05 10:10               ` Stephen Berman
2018-11-05 14:08               ` Zhang Haijun [this message]
2018-11-05 15:02                 ` Stephen Berman
2018-11-05 16:00                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-06  1:39                   ` Zhang Haijun
2018-11-06  3:31                     ` Eli Zaretskii

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