Re: \201\236 appearing in emacs.desktop

[tomas]

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On Sat, Jul 08, 2017 at 09:46:27AM +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote:
> 
> I've a problem that seems to have only developed this morning with my
> 'emacs.desktop' file. It is being saved with '\201\236' appearing for
> each entry which then stops it being reloaded on emacs restart. How can
> I kill this problem please and get it back to working sanely again?

My encoding crystal ball is pretty fuzzy on this one. At first blush
it looks like a "double UTF-8 encoding" (an UTF-8 two-byte sequence which
has been mistook for a single-byte-encoded-something and re-encoded by
some well-meaning piece of software), but I can't actually identify it
as such. Not sure I could help, but this could help to understand what's
going on:

  - (some of) the output of "describe-coding-system" aka "C-h C"
  - your platform (Gnu/Linux, Mac, Windows, ??)

(given your sig I assume a civilised platform, but better ask ;-)

Cheers
- -- tomás
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