[diffoscope] Diffoscope falls back to xxd for two (seemingly) text files with identical content

[Chris Lamb]

Hi Aman,

> > Quickly experimenting, it appears the cause of this is the strange
> > character (0x1e) on line 1185.
>
> I got a response from the file tool. It is on their mailing list - 
> https://mailman.astron.com/pipermail/file/2025-March/001476.html. It 
> contains UTF 8 characters \xc3\xa9\xc3\xa9 (éé) in ref and reb and that 
> is why file returns data.

Yes - that was my suggestion in my previous message. :)

> I have asked them the possibility if it should return UTF 8 instead
> of data.

Hm, I don't see your request for that on the list. You might want to check
whether it was sent successfully?


Regards,

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