On 2018-10-27 00:55, 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.
>
> Perhaps Dr. Duck will shine some light on the subject, or
> superuser stackoverflow communities or those among our unicode
> literati.
>

I have Pluma installed on Xfce and also had this problem. But when I
tried to open .xsession-errors, a big red warning box appeared that gave
me the option to choose between UTF-8 or iso-8859-15. I ticked
iso-8859-15 and the log displayed properly. Didn't that used to be the
default before UTF-8?. My daily driver is still jessie if that makes
any difference . . .

golinux