Re: one impurity and forget about reading big5 chars with find-file

[Dan Jacobson]

I got the file ftp://ftpsv.cwb.gov.tw/pub/forecast/index.txt.
Amazing.  I can see it [big5 chars] fine with M-x shell $ cat file.
However, if I visit it with C-x C-f I get a mess on the screen.  If I
try to set the coding system to big5, it says there are iso-latin-1
chars in the text and won't let me choose big5.  I conclude there
would be no way to be able to read the file at all with C-x C-f.

Emacs sees two or three "\246" characters in shell-mode... but when
one goes to delete them, the previous Chinese character is eaten along
with it.

Try this:
M-x shell
$ cat forecast/index.txt
C-x C-w some_name [looking great]
C-x C-v some_name [unreadable mess]
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