Re: ediff displays gibberish output

[Leo]

* 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.

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