Re: [Kdiff3-user] Symbols Are Stipped Out During Merge

[Joachim E. <joa...@gm...>]

Am Montag, 17. Oktober 2005 19:54 schrieb Matus Lipka:
> Joachim,
>
> Are you using MBCS? From my humble knowledge of multibyte character
> encodings, I was under the impression that UNICODE is always 2 bytes per
> character. So once a file is detected as being in UNICODE format, *all*
> characters are interpreted as 2 bytes. If not, then all characters are 1
> byte, and the =C2=B0 and likewise characters are never interpreted as mut=
ibyte.
>
> These kind of encodings shouldn't be mixed together in a single file,
> unless something weird like MBCS is used (which could be a non-default
> option in KDiff).
>
> Does this make sense?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matus

Hi Matus,

The term "Unicode" covers both. You might want to read=20
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode

Since the name "Unicode" doesn't stand for any specific encoding the names=
=20
UTF-8 or UCS-2 are used to be more precise.

In any case UTF-8 (which is an 8-bit, variable-width encoding) is becoming=
=20
very popular and is often the default (especially on Linux-machines).

But KDiff3 should try to honor the default setting for every individual=20
machine.

Cheers,
Joachim