Re: unicode byte order mark in hexl-mode

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Frank Herrmann wrote:

> When viewing an excel2000 file (saved in unicode format) in hexl-mode I
> see:
> 
> 00000000: 81ff 81fe 6600 6f00 6f00 0900 6100 0a20  ....f.o.o...a.. 
> 
> while the file truly starts with the byte order mark 'fffe'. I checked
> it with a C-program and vi. Emacs is also confused about the length of
> the file. You cannot move the cursor to the last two bytes.
> 
> I use emacs 20.7.1. I have not checked whether this is fixed in emacs
> 21.1

It is fixed in Emacs 21.1.

Thanks for reporting this, anyway.