I have some folder diffs that I do of some Open Source repos where each repository contains different versions of the the same source tree. I kept getting the Folder Compare to report differences that when I looked at the files in the file difference they appears to have exactly the same content. Note: I am using binary compare.
I finally figured out what is happening. They do have the same 'content' but with different encodings. One is ASCII and the other is UTF-8. It would be helpful to have a couple ways to handle that.
1) Ignore encoding differences only (upconvert ASCII to UTF08 and compare for example)
2) Something that clearly indicates in the file compare that they are different encodings. The encoding at the top fo the file IS different but its not highlighted as different so my eye tends to ignore it.
Thanks
-mark
I finally figured out what is happening. They do have the same 'content' but with different encodings. One is ASCII and the other is UTF-8. It would be helpful to have a couple ways to handle that.
1) Ignore encoding differences only (upconvert ASCII to UTF08 and compare for example)
2) Something that clearly indicates in the file compare that they are different encodings. The encoding at the top fo the file IS different but its not highlighted as different so my eye tends to ignore it.
Thanks
-mark
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