TortoiseMerge text encoding weirdness
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David Balažic
Jun 12, 2019, 7:47:37 AM6/12/19
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Hi!
Using TortoiseMerge 1.12.0 I encountered this confusing situation regarding encoding.
See attached screenshot.
0). The letter "R" is colored as changed, when it is not (this is not related to the encoding issue, just mentioning it)
1). If I change the encoding for right view by doublecliking the status bar item and select ASCII, nothing happens (the status bar now says "ASCII" but the file content looks the same). Even if I set to UTF-16 (which should make everything garbled), the displayed content stays the same.
2.) Doubleclicking the Left View encoding does nothing. Is there a way to change the left view encoding? (note: I have old file on the left, new file on the right. I opened TMerge from the "Log Messages" window by "Compare with previous version")
3.) when closing, it asks if it should save the changes
This is all very confusing. Questions:
- what does it try to save? I was comparing repository files, so there can nothing be changed/saved
- if it guesses the encoding wrong, how can the user change it?
Using TortoiseMerge 1.12.0 I encountered this confusing situation regarding encoding.
See attached screenshot.
0). The letter "R" is colored as changed, when it is not (this is not related to the encoding issue, just mentioning it)
1). If I change the encoding for right view by doublecliking the status bar item and select ASCII, nothing happens (the status bar now says "ASCII" but the file content looks the same). Even if I set to UTF-16 (which should make everything garbled), the displayed content stays the same.
2.) Doubleclicking the Left View encoding does nothing. Is there a way to change the left view encoding? (note: I have old file on the left, new file on the right. I opened TMerge from the "Log Messages" window by "Compare with previous version")
3.) when closing, it asks if it should save the changes
This is all very confusing. Questions:
- what does it try to save? I was comparing repository files, so there can nothing be changed/saved
- if it guesses the encoding wrong, how can the user change it?
Regards,
David
David Balažic
Jun 12, 2019, 7:49:27 AM6/12/19
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and the screenshot (attached... didn't gmail used to warn "you mentioned an attachment, but did not attach any files" ?)
Stefan
Jun 12, 2019, 1:10:28 PM6/12/19
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On Wednesday, June 12, 2019 at 1:47:37 PM UTC+2, David Balažic wrote:
Hi!
Using TortoiseMerge 1.12.0 I encountered this confusing situation regarding encoding.
See attached screenshot.
0). The letter "R" is colored as changed, when it is not (this is not related to the encoding issue, just mentioning it)
1). If I change the encoding for right view by doublecliking the status bar item and select ASCII, nothing happens (the status bar now says "ASCII" but the file content looks the same). Even if I set to UTF-16 (which should make everything garbled), the displayed content stays the same.
2.) Doubleclicking the Left View encoding does nothing. Is there a way to change the left view encoding? (note: I have old file on the left, new file on the right. I opened TMerge from the "Log Messages" window by "Compare with previous version")
3.) when closing, it asks if it should save the changes
Those combo boxes are used to set the encoding when saving the file.
If you want to file to reload with that encoding, hold down the ctrl key while selecting the encoding.
(the tooltip explains this)
Stefan
David Balažic
Jun 13, 2019, 8:34:47 AM6/13/19
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When and where does this tool tip appear? I hovered over all the mentioned GUI elements but no tooltip appeared.
David
Stefan
Jun 13, 2019, 10:30:32 AM6/13/19
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should appear when you hover over the combobox.
David Balažic
Jun 14, 2019, 4:57:40 AM6/14/19
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I see no combobox. You mean one of the drop-down lists? In the "Right View: Encoding" dialog? There is no tooltip appearing on any of them (one for Encoding and one for EOL is shown). Also not on the other GUI elements in that dialog.
Tried on two PCs. Both with Windows 7, if it matters.
On Thu, 13 Jun 2019 at 16:30, Stefan via TortoiseSVN <torto...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
should appear when you hover over the combobox.
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Stefan
Jun 14, 2019, 9:31:29 AM6/14/19
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haven't used win7 in a long time, but on Win10 it looks like this:
David Balažic
Jun 14, 2019, 10:13:23 AM6/14/19
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On my PC it is totally different. The status bar is static text and on doubleclick (only for the "Right View", clicking the left does nothing) a dialog appears:
On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 at 15:31, Stefan via TortoiseSVN <torto...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
haven't used win7 in a long time, but on Win10 it looks like this:
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