Subject: bug#6974: Emacs doesn't like Swedish ä (on w32)

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:05:33 +0300

> Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:33:20 +0200
> From: Andreas Röhler <[email-masked]>
> CC: [email-masked]
> 
> Am 03.09.2010 19:59, schrieb Eli Zaretskii:
> >> Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:23:33 +0200
> >> From: Andreas Röhler<[email-masked]>
> >> CC: [email-masked]
> >>
> >>>    M-: (unencodable-char-position (point-min) (point-max) 'utf-8) RET
> >>>
> >>> It should show you the first position in the buffer where you have a
> >>> character that cannot be encoded by UTF-8.  If all the characters can
> >>> be encoded by UTF-8, this will evaluate to nil.
> >>
> >> With buffer narrowed to the code from screen-shot it says:
> >>
> >> 3993 (#o7631, #xf99)
> >
> > Well, what is at buffer position 3993?
> >
> 
> the first char not displayed correctly
> should display the infinity-symbol,

Can you use some kind of hex dump program (e.g., `od') to show what's
in the file at that place?