invalid byte sequence in UTF-8 fixed by literally retyping exact same text

[cferejohn]

• I believe this to be a bug, not a question about using Jekyll.
• I Updated to the latest Jekyll (or) if on Github Pages to the latest github-pages
• I Read the CONTRIBUTION file at https://jekyllrb.com/docs/contributing/
• This is a feature request.

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• I am on (or have tested on) _Other_ GNU/Linux
• I am on (or have tested on) _Windows_ 10+

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• I was trying to install.
• There is a broken Plugin API.
• I had an error on Github Pages, and I have not tested locally.
• I had an error on Github Pages, and Github Support said it was a Jekyll Bug.
• I had an error on Github Pages and I did not test it locally.
• I was trying to build.
• It was another bug.

My Reproduction Steps

So I had seen what seemed to be reported in #2523 and the first time i hit it I fixed it by removing n-dashes and smart quotes.

However, then I into it again in a file with none of these. Through repeated deleting and saving I narrowed it down to a couple paragraphs, though weirdly I could only get the problem to go away if I deleted all of them. Deleting one at a time did nothing.

After reading someone else's bug report on this and out of frustration I tried literally typing the exact same text and deleting the old text. Flabbergastingly, this worked.

Unfortunately I don't have a repro on this and I have no idea why retyping the text did anything. That probably makes this a somewhat lousy issue, but I thought it was worth reporting in case it triggered any ideas.

The Output I Wanted

[kainjow]

What text editor did you use? Most likely it was not saved as UTF-8 and used another text encoding.

One problem I see copying and pasting that gingerbread recipe is the "180°C" - that ° is not ASCII and if your file format isn't UTF-8 Jekyll will probably barf.

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