Re: ediff displays gibberish output

[Stefan Monnier]

> In this case, one file was UTF-8, the other was pure 7-bit ASCII.  I
> think this case is also very common.

Right, we may also want to handle cases where one encoding is a subset of
the other.  But that can come as a second step.

> And then there's the case when one file is ISO-88590-x, the other is
> UTF-8; also very common.

But much more difficult to handle, since we then have to decode each half of
a hunk differently.  This can probably wait until the point where only utf-8
is relevant.

> Patches welcome, as always (but please hold your horses until after
> the release).

Seconded,


        Stefan