Re: how do i reset text coding?

[Stefan Monnier]

> On your first screenshot, the mode line shows ‘=’ instead of a ‘U’.
> (info "(emacs) Mode Line") explains:
>
>     ‘=’ means no conversion
>     whatsoever, and is usually used for files containing non-textual data.
>
> so that’s your issue: somehow, for that buffer, encoding is not set
> correctly. (I don’t know why and where to look, so I will leave it to
> others to help you diagnose it.)

My guess is that there's a NUL byte in the file.

I use (setq inhibit-null-byte-detection t) in my ~/.emacs because I've
been bitten by those NUL bytes too many times.


        Stefan