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

[Aman Sharma]

Hi Chris,


They take some time to approve my messages but should be there soon :)


Regards,
Aman Sharma

PhD Student
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)
Department of Theoretical Computer Science (TCS)
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From: Chris Lamb <chris at reproducible-builds.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2025 2:27:30 PM
To: Aman Sharma; diffoscope
Subject: Re: [diffoscope] Diffoscope falls back to xxd for two (seemingly) text files with identical content

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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