Bizarre workaround for this bug: cat the file from the command line and then copy and paste it back into a new text file in gedit. I had to copy-paste-save it in sections, because if I pasted the entire document into gedit all at once, the invalid byte sequence error remained.
Bizarre workaround for this bug: cat the file from the command line and then copy and paste it back into a new text file in gedit. I had to copy-paste-save it in sections, because if I pasted the entire document into gedit all at once, the invalid byte sequence error remained.