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.

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  gedit can't open a txt file

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