gedit not able to save - character encoding problem

[Sebastien Bacher]

Le dimanche 24 octobre 2004 à 12:23 +0200, Philippe Landau a écrit :
> i am trying to paste the october archive text from
> http://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/
> into the file my thunderbird uses
> to save the messages from this mailinglist,
> but get "Invalid byte sequence in conversion"
> 
> is there a better editor i could use on ubuntu ?

Hi,

I'm not sure to understand the problem. What are you doing exactly ? How
do you copy the text, from where, where do you paste it ? You speak
about gedit in the title of the mail, the error is a gedit one ?


Cheers,

Sebastien Bacher