Re: Single unrecognized character wrecks entire display

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 24.08.2012 um 16:54 schrieb Alexandre Oberlin:

> On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 15:46:47 +0200, Alexandre Oberlin <please@nospam.com> 
> wrote:
>> The original is in English and has no such problems, but opens in emacs as 
>> raw text Mac.
> Wrong! Actually the original also has offending characters in geographic 
> names:
> \207 and \222.

This could be easily cured: pass it to a converter which can remove 
inappropriate bytes. Iconv has the -c option. You could use it to convert from 
UTF-8 to UTF-8-MAC and from one the untouched original file to a working copy. 
Then translate the working copy.

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