The diff viewer doesn't support single-byte character sets
Submitted by Rimas Kudelis
Link to original bug (#787175)
Description
Created attachment 358991 diff screenshot
It would be nice if the diff viewer allowed to quickly switch the character set in use, or if at least it displayed invalid characters improperly. Instead, it seems to replace (some of) them with a simple question mark character.
Also, probably related, in that same diff view, some pieces of text appear to be gone altogether, and others messed up. This actually makes reviewing a diff with 8-bit characters rather painful.
I'm attaching a screenshot where you can see that some 8-bit characters are replaced with question marks in "new" lines. Also, you can note that some lines are preceded by unrelated characters.
Attachment 358991, "diff screenshot":
Version: 3.23.x