Hi, Seen with diffutils 'master' branch today: $ cat foo1.txt 你好 $ cat foo2.txt 早晨, 你好 $ src/diff -y foo1.txt foo2.txt 你好 | 早晨, 你好 $ src/diff -l -y foo1.txt foo2.txt 2023-07-04 18:41 diff -l -y foo1.txt foo2.txt Page 1 | , 你好早晨你好 (and the last line is not terminated by a newline). This is strange, isn't it? 'diff' has separate the ASCII from the non-ASCII parts of the input. With the attached patch, the output becomes: $ src/diff -l -y foo1.txt foo2.txt 2023-07-04 18:42 diff -l -y foo1.txt foo2.txt Page 1 你好 | 早晨, 你好 (which is more what I had expected).