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#16 problems with UTF-8
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 12:52:59 +0100
From: Michael Piefel
To: Debian Bug Tracking System
Subject: Bug#135867: xxdiff: can't really compare UTF-8
Package: xxdiff
Version: 1:2.0.3-1
Severity: normal
XxDiff comparing UTF-8 files is not pretty, as it treats them like
ISO-8859 instead, thus showing weird character combinations. Selecting a
font in ISO-10646-1 doesn't seem to help.
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux kosh 2.4.13-586-ext3 #1 Die Nov 6 00:09:32 CET 2001 i686
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8
Versions of packages xxdiff depends on:
ii diff 2.7-28 File comparison utilities
ii libc6 2.2.5-3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libqt2 3:2.3.1-19 Qt GUI Library (runtime version).
ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-2 The GNU stdc++ library
ii xlibs 4.1.0-14 X Window System client libraries
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ooola... me, new-world dummy... i know latin1, but never
used UTF-8, whatever it is, i guess i'll have to educate
myself a bit now and find out how to generate one of those
problematic beasties...
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QUESTION: can diff treat UTF-8 files? if not, then i
won't be able to help, since xxdiff uses diff to perform
the actual diff computation.
or perhaps is there a UTF-8 enabled version of diff? if
so, then xxdiff can be configure to use that, IF that diff
program outputs POSIX diff format.
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i'm moving this to requested features (i don't have any
plans or time to do anytime soon though)
Meanwhile in 2012 I hope you have gained some experience with UTF-8. The normal diff and most other applications can handle this and most systems work with UTF-8 at the moment. Please convert this back from feature request to bug report and fix this soon to prevent of loosing too many users. I think xxdiff is a great application and UTF-8 support would suit it nicely.
See also bug report downstream: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xxdiff/+bug/1091842