Compare by contents : UTF8 files problem…

[Clo]

Hello All!

The Search didn't return any convenient anterior thread, so I present here the following problem :

• When I compare two UTF8 text-files by their contents - i.e. 7Zip language-files -, the text is wrongly displayed in the compare-panels of TC 6.03a.
- One gets something like this…
- If a difference is located among some “fancy” characters, isn't possible to know easily what this difference is…

• This occurs under Win 98SE (wich doesn't support fully UTF8, normally), but also under Win XP-Pro, while the “rustic” Notepad of XP displays the same files properly…
• Can somebody confirm this ?

- From this, I express a wish : to get a support for UTF8 in the "Compare" panels, with a tick-box to enable that…
…like you can see on the piece of capture above as (Wish)

Kind regards,
Claude
Clo

[ghisler(Author)]

Indeed UTF8 isn't currently supported in compare by contents, only UTF16. I will consider adding it.

[Clo]

2ghisler(Author)

Good evening,

• Thank you to add it to the wish-list, it should be useful.

Best regards,
Claude
Clo

[tleepa]

I also recently came across the problem of lack of support for UTF8 in compare-by-content function...

As I deal with UTF8 files a lot nowadays, it would be great if it could be added to TC - just like in find-in-files function

What about this issue? Can it be done?

Regards