Thread (8 messages) 8 messages, 4 authors, 2022-12-01

Re: [bug] git diff --word-diff gives wrong result for utf-8 chinese

From: Ping Yin <hidden>
Date: 2022-12-01 15:51:57

Ping Yin

On Thu, Dec 1, 2022 at 10:51 PM Phillip Wood [off-list ref] wrote:
Hi Ping

On 01/12/2022 07:33, Ping Yin wrote:

git config --global diff.wordregex "[[:alnum:]_]+|[^[:space:]]|$(printf
'[\xc0-\xff][\x80-\xbf]+')"

should work. The downside is that you end up with a .gitconfig that is
not valid utf-8. Perhaps someone else has a clever idea to get around that.
Wow, it works. Thanks very much.
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