Re: can't unjumble foreign buffer

[Dan Jacobson]

>> I do find-file on a file that is unicode text (.txt), and I want to
>> unjumble before my eyes.  The only thing on the menus that might be
>> appropriate is 'set coding system' but that is greyed-out.

K> So the "Set Coding Systems" menu item is grayed-out when
K> enable-multibyte-characters is nil.  So you must have explicitly disabled
K> multibyte character support.

No, my file,
begin 644 bad.txt
)Y8N9Y'SEG+#E
`
end
it turned out, wasn't perfect unicode.
Well, I still think emacs should be more comforting in telling the
user what is bothering it, instead of just shuttering its windows like
my file was a SARS patient, of by the way I hear plenty on my
ambulance scanner radio.
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