# HG changeset patch
# User Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
# Date 988235152 0
# Node ID 7121f840504e1846f6cd1bfd03ad8e22867af49f
# Parent  e3bb46df554b9547f4b69ded269040ead20f9b35
Document byte-debug-flag.

diff -r e3bb46df554b -r 7121f840504e etc/DEBUG
--- a/etc/DEBUG	Wed Apr 25 21:33:25 2001 +0000
+++ b/etc/DEBUG	Wed Apr 25 21:45:52 2001 +0000
@@ -396,6 +396,15 @@
 useful to look at it in a fresh Emacs session and compare its contents
 with a session that you are debugging.
 
+** Debugging problems with non-ASCII characters
+
+If you experience problems which seem to be related to non-ASCII
+characters, such as \201 characters appearing in the buffer or in your
+files, set the variable byte-debug-flag to t.  This causes Emacs to do
+some extra checks, such as look for broken relations between byte and
+character positions in buffers and strings; the resulting diagnostics
+might pinpoint the cause of the problem.
+
 ** Some suggestions for debugging on MS Windows:
 
    (written by Marc Fleischeuers, Geoff Voelker and Andrew Innes)