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

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2020-02-05, at 04:09, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

>> 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.

Thanks Stefan and Óscar.  Before you answered me, I killed the buffer
and visited the file again, and the problem disappeared.  Go figure...

Thanks,

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