2023-02-15 08:42 AEST by Arthur Barrett - an 'ascii' file containing unicode characters doesn't correctly diff



take this c# source code:



          Replace('–', '-');





Now that would be better expressed as:



          Replace('\u2013', '-');





but the "cvs diff -c" incorrectly (?) shows:





***************

*** 3422,3427 ****

--- 3422,3428 ----

                  {

                      i++;

                      c1.sqlitenow = args[i];

+                     c1.sqlitenow = c1.sqlitenow.Replace('', '-');

                      c1.nowset = true;

                  }

              }







Now this would probably work if the file was marked as unicode in cvs (-ku)



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File: Class1.cs         Status: Locally Modified



   Working revision:    1.135

   Repository revision: 1.135   /scotty/userdlls/nscustomers/Class1.cs,v

   Expansion option:    kv

   Commit Identifier:   5a5d63e72f6e5c38

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But this issue, is a request that if the character is non-displayable that something should show that...