Package: diff Version: 2.8.1-12 Severity: normal When "diff -y" in run on files that contain multibyte characters (in UTF-8), the alignment is incorrect in the output. For instance,
diff -y file1 file2 on the attached files file1 and file2 produces the attached result (see "out" attachment): lines with non-ASCII characters have additional spaces. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.24.5-20080423 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages diff depends on: ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries diff recommends no packages. -- no debconf information
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