[KLUG Members] Invalid byte sequence in conversion input

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> > I had a problem before with whitespace being some odd characters.  In
> > that case Evolution was converting white space in txt files into some
> > odd ascii, and when I did copy/paste the result wouldn't work elsewhere
> > (though it --looked-- fine).
> > I'd check your white space.
> If you can do an "cat {filename} | od -a | more" and you can see what
> the character really is.  There are lots of non-visible ASCII
> characters,  and this happens pretty often when you switch between
> Unicode and Non-Unicode applications.

BTW, you can run commands from inside gedit and capture the output.
gedit is very cool.

Under "edit/preferences/plugins" enable "shell command"

Then "tools/run command", check "show results in output window" and put
in your command and hit run.

You can then copy lines from the output view and paste them in the
document very, as well as scroll through them (often easier than
screwing around on the command line).  I use this for running od and
strings all the time.