can't commit because of some utf-8? chars

[Tony Mechelynck]

On Sun, Feb 28, 2021 at 7:37 PM Uwe Brauer <oub at mat.ucm.es> wrote:
>
>
> Hello
>
> I have never ever seen something like this:
>
> ,----
> | hg ci
> | Waiting for Emacs...
> | transaction abort!
> | rollback completed
> | note: commit message saved in .hg/last-message.txt
> | abort: decoding near 'dd Nordstr�m
> |
> | * bibg': 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xf6 in position 126: invalid start byte!
> |
> `----
>
> I even don't now where to look for problem, any help is strongly
> appreciated.
>
> Regards
>
> Uwe Brauer

Wrong charset. The "strange" character is the ö of Nordström which is
codepoint U+00F6, i.e. byte 0xF6 in Latin1 but byte sequence 0xC3 0xB6
in UTF-8.  0xF6 followed by 0x6D (i.e. "m") is an illegal sequence in
UTF-8.

Best regards,
Tony.