Re: Single unrecognized character wrecks entire display

[Stefan Monnier]

> 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