Bug#553490: [wdiff-bugs] Bug#553490: wdiff: Does not handle UTF-8 properly (fwd)

2011-10-20 Thread Martin von Gagern
Dear Santiago, Dear Josh, I've already noticed that bug in your bug tracker, and added it to the wdiff bug tracker at Savannah: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?34224 Right now, I'm not sure how best to handle this case. Unicode support is a big problem for the current wdiff implementation, in many

Bug#553490: wdiff: Does not handle UTF-8 properly (fwd)

2011-10-20 Thread Santiago Vila
Hello. I received this from the Debian bug system. I've checked and the current version (1.0.1) still shows the bug. [ Please keep the Cc: lines when replying, thanks ]. [ Apologies to the submitter for taking so long to process this ] -- Forwarded message -- From: Josh Triplett

Bug#553490: wdiff: Does not handle UTF-8 properly

2009-10-31 Thread Josh Triplett
Package: wdiff Version: 0.5-19 Severity: normal "wdiff -a" uses backspace and overstrike to provide emphasis; thus, it will emphasize 'x' by printing 'x^Hx'. When it encounters a UTF-8 character, it does this for each byte, rather than for each character; thus, emphasis of <80><99> (U+2019 RIGHT