diff - meld shows output in unreadable alphabet (Japanese/Chinese?)

i using meld visualise diff between 2 files. meld shows diff output in... japanese or chinese?

any idea happen? locale issue? strange when using diff or colordiff in terminal, work perfectly!

thanks!

same problem here: file encoding not correctly detected.

in case due meld's "detect-encodings" settings.

check with:

$ gsettings org.gnome.meld detect-encodings ['utf8']

only utf8 detected.

to workaround issue add 'latin1' or whatever encoding file has:

$ gsettings set org.gnome.meld detect-encodings "['utf8','latin1']"

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