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Document byte-debug-flag.
author Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
date Wed, 25 Apr 2001 21:45:52 +0000
parents e3bb46df554b
children 4b43d9f652aa
files etc/DEBUG
diffstat 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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--- 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)