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!!![Illegal] Sequence
-An illegal multibyte sequence was found in the input. This usually means that you have the wrong charactor encoding, for instance the [MicrosoftCorporation] version of latin-1 (which has it's own stuff like "smart quotes" in the reserved bytes) instead of the real latin1(7)
(or perhaps [utf8(7)]).
+An illegal multibyte sequence was found in the input. This usually means that you have the wrong charactor encoding, for instance the [MicrosoftCorporation] version of latin-1 (aka iso_8859_1(7))
(which has it's own stuff like "smart quotes" in the reserved bytes) instead of the real latin
(or perhaps [utf8(7)]).
Try changing which encoding you expect and try again.
+
+For example if you are using the iconv(1) command or library (note that iconv doesn't actually raise that error, but this demonstrates the problem):
+
+ $ echo -e "\0777 is an invalid utf-8 byte" > myfile
+ $ iconv -f utf-8 -t iso-8859-1 myfile
+ iconv: illegal input sequence at position 0
+ $
