From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: numbers instead of accented letters... Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2018 08:20:51 -0500 Message-ID: References: <4E21DAC8-443B-4BFF-9C1A-2B6AB49AF3D5@gmail.com> <75046691-E3EE-453A-AF94-7FDC12241FE9@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1543238590 20026 195.159.176.226 (26 Nov 2018 13:23:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2018 13:23:10 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 26 14:23:06 2018 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 1gRGqu-00052y-3N for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Nov 2018 14:23:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35927 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gRGt0-0008VA-6d for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Nov 2018 08:25:14 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60132) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gRGp0-0005BQ-7m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Nov 2018 08:21:12 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gRGou-00087v-KL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Nov 2018 08:21:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=36491 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gRGou-00086c-DV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Nov 2018 08:21:00 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gRGmk-0006zO-EI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Nov 2018 14:18:46 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 33 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:fOdiBEhM/SvRFiqCXYYFmj2WCrE= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:118760 Archived-At: >> If this works without complaint, check the "U" in the mode-line: is it >> still there? > Everything worked as you said and indeed the U is still there. And if you now try `emacs -Q ~/.emacs.el` anew, you again see the \NNN and the "=" in the modeline? Does the file have file-local variables as in -*- ... -*- on the first line or Local Variables: ... End: on the last few lines? > So, should I interpret that as Emacs is, for some reason, not using > UTF-8 to read the file ? Yes, the `=` means that Emacs decided that this file should be treated as binary data rather than utf-8 text, basically. Could you also try to search for a 0-byte? E.g. with C-s C-q 0 C-s C-s ? Stefan