What is the meaning of this error message?
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## What is the meaning of this error message?

    Invalid byte sequence in conversion input

The file you are trying to display is encoded with a different encoding than the locale one and the conversion to UTF8 , the default encoding with GTK, fails. I could set the encoding to ISO8859-1 because doing this fixes the problem, but it creates another one with german umlauts in ASCII files for example; they would be incorrectly showed. So if you get this error please extract the file and then see it with your favourite text editor.

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