gedit not able to save - character encoding problem

[Philippe Landau]

>>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 ?

> 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 ?

yes, the error comes up in gedit
when i try to save the text i copy and then paste
from the archive found on the mentioned url into
a file i open in gedit on my computer.

there may be two problems involved:
the first is there may be incompatible characters
in the text that you offer for download (i used the compressed one)
and the fact that gedit offers no way to save the data.