Re: ediff displays gibberish output

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Leo <address@hidden>
> 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.