Output trashes UTF-8

[zzzi2p]

22 year old bug

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=135867
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xxdiff/+bug/2031254

[blais]

Time flies when you're having fun

[domo141]

I recall this happened with some (packaged) builds of xxdiff 4.x (with qt4).

I thought it got fixed -(and maybe some packaged build did get fixed - I recall not having this problem in later xxdiff versions, but I just compiled HEAD (committer-date 2024-11-17) and still seeing it.

Have to try tomorrow w/ one system where I have (fedora-41) -packaged xxdiff in use whether it
happens there, too (and if not will pick the source package to see why not).

That was one of the reasons I am also using xxdiff 3.x...

This is easy to reproduce. Create a file with utf-8 chars there. then copy it, change a bit and then xxdiff
the 2 files. pick parts of the 2 files and save as either. in the saved file I see utf8-chars in latin-1 range
(160-255) to be converted to exactly that 8-bit octet in the written file.