On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 07:55:33PM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 08:21:11PM +0200, Michael K. wrote: > > Hey List readers, > > > > i use, under Dev1, XFCE and "geany 1.29" as my default IDE / Text editor. > > > > I observe my xsession-errors on this way also, long time ago. But, i > > can't open my ".xsession-errors" file whit any text editor? > > > > A "text editor" tells me on opening the file: this file is a invalid UTF-8 > > > > what must i do to re-open my ".xsession-errors" in a text editor? > > You could: > > * See if maybe joe or nano or vim or ??? editor will be more > accepting of the input. > > * Use a hex editor to look for a byte-order-mark (BOM) at > the beginning of the file, I think some programs choke on them. > At least I've observed myself "fixing" a file by editing out the BOM. > > The BOM indicates whether the text will representated with > the bits in little or big endian order.
The byte-order mark is quite relevant in 16-bit unicode representations. but it gets in the way in UTF-8, even if correctly re-encoded as UTF-8. The convention of using the UTF-8 version of the BOM to identify a file as being UTF-8-encoded unicode has been used occasionally, but it's not official, and systems that adhere strictly to spec may well reject it. I know at one point the gnu C compiler correctly (but annoyingly) did. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
