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Re: diff -y + UTF-8 = irregular columns


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: diff -y + UTF-8 = irregular columns
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:03:22 -0800
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux)

Erik Karlsson <address@hidden> writes:

> While in an UTF-8 enviroment, comparing one or two UTF-8 files the
> column widths seem to be miscalculated. It seems as if each byte of
> multi-byte characters are counted as separate characters, giving a
> slight skew on lines with such characters.

Thanks for your bug report.  It is indeed a bug, one that it would
be nice to fix.




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