A NOTE has been added to this issue. ====================================================================== https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1942 ====================================================================== Reported By: dwheeler Assigned To: ajosey ====================================================================== Project: 1003.1(2008)/Issue 7 Issue ID: 1942 Category: Shell and Utilities Type: Enhancement Request Severity: Objection Priority: normal Status: Under Review Name: David A. Wheeler Organization: User Reference: diff Section: diff Page Number: 1 Line Number: 1 Interp Status: --- Final Accepted Text: ====================================================================== Date Submitted: 2025-08-31 22:16 UTC Last Modified: 2025-09-01 15:08 UTC ====================================================================== Summary: Add common options to diff ======================================================================
---------------------------------------------------------------------- (0007248) dwheeler (reporter) - 2025-09-01 15:08 https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1942#c7248 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Note: historically the `-a` option is for "ASCII", but I suspect this can be renamed to "as text". In *practice* these systems do line-by-line comparisons. I did some brief testing on MacOS diff, and it handles UTF-8 just fine with `-a`. Issue History Date Modified Username Field Change ====================================================================== 2025-08-31 22:16 dwheeler New Issue 2025-08-31 22:16 dwheeler Status New => Under Review 2025-08-31 22:16 dwheeler Assigned To => ajosey 2025-09-01 15:08 dwheeler Note Added: 0007248 ======================================================================
