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Re: how to find encoding violations in Emacs buffer?
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: how to find encoding violations in Emacs buffer? |
Date: |
Wed, 13 Dec 2006 06:26:32 +0200 |
> From: riccardo.murri@gmail.com
> Date: 12 Dec 2006 10:18:13 -0800
>
> from time to time, a buffer gets some spurious character in and Emacs
> refuses to save it in the correct encoding. So I am presented with the
> choice of other different encodings.
>
> However, in most of the cases, I know that the file *should* be UTF-8
> encoded. So I would rather like to find out where the offending
> character is and correct it, instead of choosing a different encoding.
>
> Is there any function/package/elisp hack to find/highlight characters
> in a buffer that Emacs could not encode as UTF-8?
Emacs 22 already shows the problematic characters. Please look closer
at the text of the buffer where Emacs tells you why it needs your
decision about the encoding.