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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.
Thanks in advance

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
2
menet

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…)

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.
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
Best Regards
