From 93699019715a9bc25ef8663493351a777618202b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 21:45:52 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Document byte-debug-flag. --- etc/DEBUG | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/etc/DEBUG b/etc/DEBUG index a4786082ebe..fa32646e71b 100644 --- a/etc/DEBUG +++ b/etc/DEBUG @@ -396,6 +396,15 @@ Once you discover the corrupted Lisp object or data structure, it is 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) -- 2.39.2