Re: ediff displays gibberish output

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Leo <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 01:22:50 +0000
> 
>     How to reproduce:
>       1. save the attachments to file1.txt and file2.txt
>       
>       2. M-x ediff RET and choose file1.txt file2.txt respectively
>       
>       3. Type 'D' in ediff panel window and you see the difference
>          output is gibberish as shown in the screenshot.

Thank you for your report.

I'm not sure this is a bug, though: `D' displays the raw output from
Diff, whose encoding is not clear, because it comes from two different
files that could be each encoded differently.  Ediff reads the output
of Diff in raw-text form, precisely for this reason, and that is how
the buffer is displayed to you when you press `D'.  What you see is
not gibberish, but the UTF-8 encoding of the non-ASCII characters,
exactly as they are in the written in file1.txt on disk.

I'm not sure we can do any better here, unless we somehow know the
encoding of each of the two files.

Michael and Handa-san, could you please comment on this?