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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Message #41 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
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 23:01:31 +0200

Uwe Brauer <oub <at> mat.ucm.es> writes:

>    > 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?!

No, UTF-8 and UTF-16 are just two different encodings of the same
charset, which is Unicode.  

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