Re: problem with diff and UTF-8 encoded files

thomas wrote:

> hi,
>
> i checked out some UTF-8 encoded files, changed them, saved them,
> opened them again and everything is okay. but when i make a "svn diff
> > file.txt" on the commandline the special characters (like ä, ö, ü
> etc) are broken. is this a known problem? is there a switch or something?
>
> i'm using Mac OS X and svn 1.1.3

I have the same problem with svn 1.1.3 and win2ksp4. I would like to
diff two UTF-8 encoded files and to get an UTF-8 diff output.

It seems that the internal diff treats the input files as raw text and
the diff output contains scrambled characters in place of extended UTF
characters.

I am under the feeling I am missing something basic. Does the diff
command actually support UTF-8 encoded files?

If so, how does Subversion determine which encoding is used?

I searched the book and the list archive with no success. I found
"--encoding" options for the log messages encoding and a "svn:eol-style"
property for end-of-line preferences.

Any help very welcome! Thanks

-- 
Olivier
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