In WinMerge, when comparing a physical drive with Google Drive, files with no differences may not be compared correctly as another files.

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In WinMerge, when comparing a physical drive with Google Drive, files with no differences may not be compared correctly as another files. #2484

Open SekiYukichika opened 4 days ago

SekiYukichika commented 4 days ago

When comparing the physical drive and Google Drive, as shown in this image, they are treated as different files and cannot be determined correctly even if text files. The same problem occurs whether I use binary comparison or update date and size comparison. Is there a workaround or solution? 20241021_WinMerge問い合わせ

sdottaka commented 3 days ago

This is probably due to differences in the Unicode normalization of the "プ" or "バ" characters in the file names.

Currently, WinMerge cannot ignore these differences in Unicode normalization. (related discussion: #2121)

As a workaround, you can remove voiced or semi-voiced characters from the file names.