Re: Trying to find the origin of strange decoding of binary files

[Kevin Rodgers]

Nordlöw wrote:
> I am trying to find the source of very annoying delay I get when I,
> often accidentally, open binary files in Emacs. It does not occur in
> Vanilla Emacs so it has to do with some extension I added long ago.
> When I open a binary file Emacs hangs for at least half a minute on my
> fast computer (AMD64 Athlon X2 4200+), becomes extremely slow and the
> resulting buffer often contains lots of chinese letters. How can I
> prevent this from happening? Where should I start to search? What
> variables and structures control how the character encoding is guessed
> and how characters are decoded?

(info "(emacs)Recognize Coding")

> As my Emacs config is huge I thought I would ask for help here first
> before I do a binary-searched activate/deactivate in my .emacs which
> is very time-consuming.

Anything in there related to language environment, locale environment,
or coding system preference?

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA