[kompare] [Bug 326894] kompare ignores binary files

[Kevin Kofler]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=326894

Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |DUPLICATE

--- Comment #3 from Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> ---
The problem is that diff does not produce that information in a
machine-readable way. Instead, you get a translated (!) freeform message that
"Binary files x and y differ", which is just ignored by patch like any other
junk text line (and that's also what Kompare treats it as right now, a junk
line). I can't really have Kompare check for the translations of that message
in every single translation of the diff utility, yet that would be the only
reliable way to handle it, because Kompare also works on diff files, which
could have been generated in any locale.

There's a feature request for really supporting binary diffs, but that would
mean moving beyond the diff utility, so it is unlikely to happen.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 155284 ***

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