Re: want to go to the 2345th byte, not character

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>
> Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 23:56:38 +0800
> 
> Eli> Can you tell why you need that?
> 
> iconv said there was a problem at the 2345th character in that file
> and I wanted to see what the file looked like around there.

I hope you filed a bug report with the iconv maintainers, asking them
to report the character number as well as the byte number.  I don't
see why Emacs should fix the entire world out there.

> Eli> use hexl-find-file for that.
> 
> But then I can't see it in the native language I bet.

If hexl doesn't show decoded non-ASCII characters alongside the hex
byte values (I don't remember whether it should), then perhaps you
should request a feature for it to do so.