Bug 489538

Summary: kdiff3 adds special characters on merge
Product: [Applications] kdiff3 Reporter: Sven Moderow <s.moderow>
Component: applicationAssignee: michael <reeves.87>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: major CC: patrikm87, pritykin.amir
Priority: NOR    
Version: 1.11.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Microsoft Windows   
OS: Microsoft Windows   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments: notepad++ visualization of special characters
kdiff3rc that exhibits the issue

Description Sven Moderow 2024-07-01 10:04:13 UTC
Created attachment 171232 [details]
notepad++ visualization of special characters

kdiff3 adds special characters on merge

"ZWNBSP" characters, see attachment!
Comment 1 Patrik 2024-08-20 15:34:21 UTC
Created attachment 172776 [details]
kdiff3rc that exhibits the issue

I also had an issue with this, just to provide some more details in hope of recreating the issue for debugging I've uploaded my kdiff3rc

Here is some info about my computer in case it is an OS-issue:

- Windows 11 Business (English OS, Swedish locale), 23H2, OS Build 22631.4037
- KDiff3 version 1.11.2 (64 bit)
Comment 2 Viacheslav 2024-09-09 12:38:50 UTC
I can confirm that the same issue consistently occurs on the latest macOS with kdiff3 version 1.11.2 arm64
Comment 3 michael 2024-09-22 22:46:28 UTC
What are the output and input encodings triggering this?
Comment 4 michael 2024-10-17 14:24:30 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 493597 ***