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Let X be a compact Hausdorff topological group and let m be the Haar measure on X. Can we find a meager set in X whose complement is m-null? I can do it when X is separable but I don't know if there could be a non separable counterexample. The only non separable examples I know are products of separable groups so this holds there.

Thanks for your help!

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I switch to call $G$ your group because $X$ is a weird notation. The answer is: yes iff $G$ is infinite.

I assume you have a proof for $G$ infinite separable.

Next you can deal with the general case thanks to the following lemma: if $G$ is an infinite compact group, then it has an infinite separable quotient.

Indeed, if the lemma is OK, then just take such a quotient and pull back a meager subset of full measure.

To prove the lemma, let $(g_n)$ be an injective sequence in $G$. Consider a finite-dimensional representation that is injective on $\{g_1,\dots,g_n\}$. Then its image is a separable quotient $G_n$ of $G$. Let $G_\infty$ be the closure of the image of $G$ in $\prod_n G_n$. Then $G_\infty$ is separable, and is a quotient of $G$. Moreover $G\to G_\infty$ is injective on $\{g_n:n\ge 0\}$ and hence $G_\infty$ is infinite. Thus the lemma is proved.

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