Re: replacing characters and whacky trans-buffer conversion

[Stefan Monnier]

>>> The first buffer is a *scratch* buffer, the modeline starts "--:".  The
>>> second contains the *.el file mentioned in the original post; its
>>> modeline begins "-:".
>> 
>> For some reason this second buffer is in unibyte mode.
>> That's the source of your problem.  Tell us how you created that buffer.

> C-x C-f

Hmm, that doesn't say much.
Tell us the value of C-h v default-enable-multibyte-characters.
Also shows us the first few and last few lines of the file.


        Stefan