Re: How to find the character breaking the file encoding?

[Stefan Monnier]

> 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