Re: how to find encoding violations in Emacs buffer?

[Riccardo Murri]

On 12/12/06, Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se> wrote:
> riccardo.murri@gmail.com wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > from time to time, a buffer gets some spurious character in and Emacs
> > refuses to save it in the correct encoding. So I am presented with the
> > choice of other different encodings.
> >
> > However, in most of the cases, I know that the file *should* be UTF-8
> > encoded.  So I would rather like to find out where the offending
> > character is and correct it, instead of choosing a different encoding.
> >
> > Is there any function/package/elisp hack to find/highlight characters
> > in a buffer that Emacs could not encode as UTF-8?
> >
>
> I think someone said there was, but I have never seen it though I have
> had these problem quite often. Can't remember the details now.
>
> Which platform are you on? I am using MS Windows (2000 or XP).

Debian (etch) GNU/Linux, running emacs-snapshot-gtk, 22.0.90

Does the platform matter in this case?  I would have thought the elisp
interface
hides those details...

Riccardo