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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to find the character breaking the file encoding?
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2020 22:09:00 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvtv453f5u.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87a75yxc5q.fsf@mbork.pl

> 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.


        Stefan




  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-02-05  3:09 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 [this message]
2020-02-08 11:36   ` Marcin Borkowski

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