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Re: ediff displays gibberish output
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Leo |
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Re: ediff displays gibberish output |
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Sun, 17 Dec 2006 04:37:03 +0000 |
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Gnus v5.11, Emacs/23.0.0.3 (20061122), Fedora 5 |
* Eli Zaretskii (2006-12-17 06:30 +0200) said:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> 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.
I mean in emacs running diff-buffer-with-file or vc-diff. The diff
output displays correctly.
--
Leo <sdl.web AT gmail.com> (GPG Key: 9283AA3F)
- ediff displays gibberish output, Leo, 2006/12/12
- Re: ediff displays gibberish output, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/12/16
- Re: ediff displays gibberish output, Kenichi Handa, 2006/12/16
- Re: ediff displays gibberish output, Leo, 2006/12/16
- Re: ediff displays gibberish output, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/12/16
- Re: ediff displays gibberish output,
Leo <=
- Re: ediff displays gibberish output, Kenichi Handa, 2006/12/17
- Re: ediff displays gibberish output, Leo, 2006/12/17
- Re: ediff displays gibberish output, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/12/17
- Re: ediff displays gibberish output, Stefan Monnier, 2006/12/18
- Re: ediff displays gibberish output, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/12/18
- Re: ediff displays gibberish output, Stefan Monnier, 2006/12/18
- Re: ediff displays gibberish output, Kenichi Handa, 2006/12/18
Re: ediff displays gibberish output, Michael Kifer, 2006/12/17