Actually I tested SciTE, which is kind enough to open the file without problem, and simply showing plain bytes for the invalid ones, making line 1738 (last one) look like this: 
It's pretty messy but fair enough. However, we probably won't do that, because being able to have a fixed encoding in the data we load means that we have to handle encoding conversion in a single place, instead of everywhere something touches the data -- and there are a lot of code that does that, it's and editor after all. Also, as UTF-8 can represent virtually any textual data (anything inside Unicode), it would only help with invalid input (like here) or binary data (which probably would better be handled with a hex filter). So I'm afraid it won't happen. If someone has a nice solution though, I'd love to be proven wrong. -- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/1238#issuecomment-247959290
