* Eli Zaretskii (2006-12-17 06:30 +0200) said: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >> From: Leo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 03:15:59 +0000 >> >> But a file with eight-bit characters can have a correct diff >> output. What makes ediff fail where diff succeeds? > > I'm not sure what you mean, but my crystal ball says that you are > looking at the output of Diff in a terminal that supports UTF-8 > encoded characters. If that's the case, then you will only see > correct output from Diff with UTF-8 encoded files; other encodings > will show gibberish. > > By contrast, Emacs does not support a single encoding, it supports > many different ones. It needs to know the right encoding to display > the characters as readable.
I mean in emacs running diff-buffer-with-file or vc-diff. The diff output displays correctly. -- Leo <sdl.web AT gmail.com> (GPG Key: 9283AA3F) _______________________________________________ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug
