UTF-8 support in DIAdem 15 / DIAdem 15 GIT support

[SeryDavid]

I am working on a DIAdem project and I use the GIT to version my files. It seems DIAdem uses defaultly UTF-16LE encoding, which makes GIT treat the files as binary. So when making commits I don't get any change logs, only that the files differ.

So I manually changed all the files to UTF-8. But now the DIAdem behaves strangely:

• Some letters are not shown correctly now => e.g. '?' gets shown instead of Δ, sometimes weirder letters.
• When I fix replace this letters in DIAdem the script runs fine and in the reports I get the correct letters.
• When I close the file and open it afterwards, some letters get destroyed again. (‰ and ° seem to work after the first fix, Δ not)

What do I do wrong? Does DIAdem not fully support UTF-8? If not, how should I version the files using GIT and still have the file comparisons? I tried some suggestions found online, but they did not work for me.

[FedorH]

Hi,

After some research, I can present you with two possible solutions for your issue:

1. It is possible to change encoding in DIAdem from Unicode to ANSI – Every character will be encoded as an ANSI character and special, non-standard characters will be replaced with “?”.
2. Install some third party software plugin for GIT, which might allow GIT to view, read and compare files encoded in UTF-16.

I am also attaching illustrative instructions how to change encoding.

Please, let me know if the answer was helpful.

Best regards

FH

[SeryDavid]

Sadly the provided solution (first point) did not help.

When I use the ANSI Diadem encoding and use the Δ sign it seems to work, but after closing and opening the file again, the Δ gets replaced by '?'.

[SeryDavid · Accepted solution]

Solved this problem by adding:

into .gitconfig:

[diff "utf16le"]
    textconv = "iconv -f UTF-16LE -t UTF-8"

into .gitattributes:

*.vbs diff=utf16le
*.VBS diff=utf16le