\342\200\230 in efleed search buffer

Starting from a few days ago, elfeed buffer started showing \`\\342\\200\\230\` like below: ​ https://preview.redd.it/seubceak6dw81.png?width=1156&format=png&auto=webp&s=dcfb5c2f8a2e4d15824a4bde2aa544406cc643bc What could be the reason for this? And what is this thing called if I am to Google it?

Those are Unicode codes for characters eMacs is not displaying. Many things can cause that I suppose. I also have this issue in some of my machines, usually I can fix it by setting LC env vars or something like that. I’m interested in what other people will say here though

You cropped out the modeline so I'm just guessing here but I think your buffer is not in utf8. Try C-X RET r utf-8 .

Must be some UTF characters and the way your emacs is set up. I get this: 2022-04-28 Balloon detects first signs of a ‘sound tunnel’ in the sky Hacker News: Front Page (hacker,news) My modeline says 'UTF-8' but I forget how that gets there!! By copy-pasting that line into hexdump, you can see that those are not normal ' characters: ``` $ echo '2022-04-28 Balloon detects first signs of a ‘sound tunnel’ in the sky Hacker News: Front Page (hacker,news) ' | hexdump -C 00000000 32 30 32 32 2d 30 34 2d 32 38 20 42 61 6c 6c 6f |2022-04-28 Ballo| 00000010 6f 6e 20 64 65 74 65 63 74 73 20 66 69 72 73 74 |on detects first| 00000020 20 73 69 67 6e 73 20 6f 66 20 61 20 e2 80 98 73 | signs of a ...s| 00000030 6f 75 6e 64 20 74 75 6e 6e 65 6c e2 80 99 20 69 |ound tunnel... i| 00000040 6e 20 74 68 65 20 73 6b 79 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 |n the sky | 00000050 20 20 20 20 20 20 48 61 63 6b 65 72 20 4e 65 77 | Hacker New| 00000060 73 3a 20 46 72 6f 6e 74 20 50 61 67 65 20 28 68 |s: Front Page (h| 00000070 61 63 6b 65 72 2c 6e 65 77 73 29 0a 0a |acker,news)..| 0000007d ```

It's UTF-8. I've updated the screenshot in the post. This is WSL2 + Vcxsrv. I remember I installed a major Windows update recently (21H2?), could that be related?

Seems elfeed database is corrupt. deleting the `~/.elfeed` folder "fixed' it, but that means I lost my feed items downloaded in th epast.

Seems elfeed database is corrupt. deleting the `~/.elfeed` folder "fixed' it, but that means I lost my feed items downloaded in th epast.