On 2012.06.26 07:35, Krakenberger, Bertil wrote: > Hello! > When I try to compare two ordinary Word files, their contents are > presented in KDiff3 in gibberish, like this > K?? c[1]c~?*???G?!?;p??cJ?d??? > ________________________________ > ??s`?. When I take clips from the same files and paste them into the > program instead, they look perfectly normal. How comes? > I'm not sure which program you mean by "Word" but perhaps the contents of the file are either encrypted or compressed. If by "take clips" you mean copy/paste from the screen, then they have already been decompressed/decrypted. Have you tried a simple "cat file" first? If that gives you the same gibberish, then why would you expect kdiff3 to be able to deal with it?
Jack
