[XeTeX] corrupted TeX file

[Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)]

Vafa Khalighi wrote:
> I received this question from a user.
>
> He was typing the tex file while suddenly power was cut off. When he
> turned his computer on, he has got this corrupted tex file. Is there a
> way to recover this tex file? The file is in UTF8.

IMHO, extraordinarily unlikely : recent data is likely
to be solely in RAM.  Very few programs (EDT was a notable
exception) maintain a real-time journal file for
recover in such circumstances.

Philip Taylor