Yep, FileMerge only uses MacRoman character encoding. Try this tip: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20091116060951378&query=mac+roman+filemerge or Try using another diff tool, such as Changes.
Faun On Dec 21, 2009, at 7:02 AM, Karoly wrote: > I use FileMerge to compare files in Versions, and whenever I use > "Local Changes" on UTF-8 text files, all non-ASCII characters in the > left file (revBASE) come up garbled and are marked as different. > Unfortunately this makes these diffs useless for any file that > contains more than a handful of such characters. Annoying! > > Digging deeper I found that the revBASE files are missing the > "com.apple.TextEncoding" attribute and thus FileMerge defaults to the > Mac Roman encoding when loading them. > > Has anyone else encountered this issue? Did you find a workaround? > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Versions" group. > To post to this group, send email to versi...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > versions+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/versions?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Versions" group. To post to this group, send email to versi...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to versions+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/versions?hl=en.
