Bug 120400

Summary: Kdiff3 doesnt render utf-8 correctly
Product: [Applications] kdiff3 Reporter: a...@gawab.com
Component: applicationAssignee: Joachim Eibl <joachim.eibl>
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 0.9.88   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Unlisted Binaries   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description a...@gawab.com 2006-01-18 19:26:28 UTC 
Version:           0.9.88 (using KDE KDE 3.4.3)
Installed from:    Unspecified Linux
OS:                Linux

Kdiff3 doesnt show utf-8 encoded files correctly. Arabic characters are shown usually as a character followed by a square. I tried both utf8,utf16,ISO-8859-6 and cp1256 encoding but it doesn't help. 
In Windows it was better with ISO-8859-6 and cp1256 (I can see the arabic letters but they are not joines as they should be in arabic).
The problem is maybe that Kdiff3 somehow doesn't recognize UTF-8 as such!

Thank you!
Comment 1 Joachim Eibl 2006-01-18 22:55:02 UTC 
Hi,
In version 0.9.88 KDiff3 doesn't detect the encoding of a file automatically. You have to set it in the regional-settings in the configuration. UTF-8 is also allowed.
Was this the problem?
Joachim
Comment 2 michael 2018-03-26 00:19:38 UTC 
Bug against unmaintained version.