Thanks for reviewing. as you wrote, diff content may not be utf8 at all. and we don't know that the user's terminal watns is utf8. I think your trying utf8 decode and fall back approach is better than my patch, and do work well. is using "$@" for catching error like the patch below? According to perldoc Encode.pm, encode/decode with "FB_CROAK" may destroy original string. We should probabry use "LEAVE_SRC" on decode_utf8's second argument. --- contrib/diff-highlight/diff-highlight | 17 ++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/contrib/diff-highlight/diff-highlight b/contrib/diff-highlight/diff-highlight index c4404d4..0743851 100755 --- a/contrib/diff-highlight/diff-highlight +++ b/contrib/diff-highlight/diff-highlight @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ use warnings FATAL => 'all'; use strict; +use Encode qw(decode_utf8 encode_utf8); # Highlight by reversing foreground and background. You could do # other things like bold or underline if you prefer. @@ -73,13 +74,23 @@ sub show_hunk { my @queue; for (my $i = 0; $i < @$a; $i++) { - my ($rm, $add) = highlight_pair($a->[$i], $b->[$i]); - print $rm; - push @queue, $add; + my ($a_dec, $encode_rm) = decode($a->[$i]); + my ($b_dec, $encode_add) = decode($b->[$i]); + my ($rm, $add) = highlight_pair($a_dec, $b_dec); + print $encode_rm->($rm); + push @queue, $encode_add->($add); } print @queue; } +sub decode { + my $orig = shift; + my $decoded = eval { decode_utf8($orig, Encode::FB_CROAK | Encode::LEAVE_SRC) }; + return $@ ? + ($orig, sub { shift }) : + ($decoded, sub { encode_utf8(shift) }); +} + sub highlight_pair { my @a = split_line(shift); my @b = split_line(shift); -- 1.8.5.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html