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

From: Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 1, 2022, 15:51 UTC
Message-ID: <CACSwcnTBKHO249HMhps_M629hJiAftQr0BbS50DczMThX9DDHw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4dac768f-1104-a565-db4c-8a1b7eb2870d@dunelm.org.uk>

Ping Yin

On Thu, Dec 1, 2022 at 10:51 PM Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com> wrote:

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