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[Wish] Compare by content : UFT-8 option

Posted: 2006-11-08, 07:20 UTC
by menet
Hi,

Can we add like in the lister a UTF-8 option in the Compare tool like there is already Binary and Unicode options ? :?:

With that, we will have a better view of the TXT files with special characters. :P

Thanks in advance :wink:

Posted: 2006-11-08, 16:59 UTC
by ghisler(Author)
Unfortunately I haven't found a way to add it, sorry. The problem is that UTF-8 characters can be between 1 and 5 bytes long, so we cannot simply make a bytewise comparison.

Already requested…

Posted: 2006-11-08, 17:30 UTC
by Clo
2menet

:) Good evening,

• I've requested that feature a long while ago…

- With 7.0, you can set an external tool supporting UTF8 (if there is any…)

:mrgreen: KR
Claude
Clo

Posted: 2006-11-08, 19:24 UTC
by menet
Hi Christian, Bonsoir Claude,

If it is to difficult to do, I will continue to work like that... The differences between 2 files are often on lines or words not only on special French characters. :twisted:

I will prefer if you can implement a special option to Lister for working with text file using UTF-8 format by default (without looking for the UTF-8 signature) requested in this entry 8)

Best Regards :wink: