GNU bug report logs - #23595
25.1.50; file with chinese/japanse chars, vc-diff fails (HG, Git, RCS)

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Uwe Brauer <oub <at> mat.ucm.es>

Date: Sat, 21 May 2016 13:03:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 25.1.50

Done: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Uwe Brauer <oub <at> mat.ucm.es>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#23595: 25.1.50;
 file with chinese/japanse chars, vc-diff fails (HG, Git, RCS)
Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 20:37:29 +0000

>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
   >> Right, I see, that was just 2 chars in a document which contained
   >> latin-1 or UTF8. So Chinese and Japanese programmers are in a
   >> disadvantage, no?

   > Why?  UTF-8 supports Chinese just fine.

Now I am confused. In my poor understanding I thought UTF-16 is needed
for Chinese and Japanese. That seems not to be the case?!

So the problem I reported was caused by the fact that I used UTF-16
instead of UTF-8?
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