Re: Single unrecognized character wrecks entire display

[Alexandre Oberlin]

> it might be that C-x RET r utf-8 RET might do the
> trick
Thanks Stefan, but this does not work.

Alexandre


> > Is there a way to quickly spot the offending character within Emacs in
> > such cases?
>
> Good question.  Please send it as a feature request via
> M-x report-emacs-bug.
>
> As for an answer, it might be that C-x RET r utf-8 RET might do the
> trick (basically, the single offending byte caused Emacs to decide that
> the file is not using utf-8 and read it as a binary file; so by
> forcing the use of utf-8 you should get all the utf-8 encoded chars to
> appear correctly and the invalid byte to appear as \234).
>
>
>         Stefan


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