Marnix Klooster wrote:
The solution seems very simple to me: have new patch type that contains
a *character-based* diff, instead of the currently used (and
traditional) line-based diff.
This requires no knowledge of the structure of the file contents, and is
fairly robust (i.e., leads to sensible diffs) when only small changes
are made, such as wording changes, layout changes, etc.
Well, then you have to worry about character sizes and encodings a lot
more. Characters may be anywhere between 7-bits (non-extended ASCII,
among others) to 16-bits (Unicode) to 32-bit ("Wide" Unicode), and in
some languages their "characters" actually contain sequences of several
Unicode characters.
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