I checked on a few other systems I have access to and it works correctly on all
of them:
Red Hat Enterprise 5.3,
Debian 5.0
SunOS 5.8
However I don't know configuration details about these.
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diff is confused by japanese filenames
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By the way, this is using 8.10 fully updated.
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Yeah, it appears that diff cannot appropriately parse Unicode filenames.
I tested this quite a bit and discovered that diff can distinguish
filenames if
* they are different lengths or
* they have ASCII characters that are different (or in different locations).
Otherwise it fails. Simple case:
$
Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10 beta or later?
** Changed in: diffutils (Ubuntu)
Sourcepackagename: diff => diffutils
Status: New => Incomplete
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By the way, comparing the files individually shows there are no diffs.
diff -qr on just the directory with those files gives the same problem.
Creating dummy files with just those names in another directory does not
reproduce. Nor does recreating the whole directory with dummy files.
I can't do
