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Re: ediff displays gibberish output
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: ediff displays gibberish output |
Date: |
Sun, 17 Dec 2006 06:30:22 +0200 |
> 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.
- 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 <=
- Re: ediff displays gibberish output, Leo, 2006/12/16
- 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