diff-highlight: do not split multibyte characters
When the input is UTF-8 and Perl is operating on bytes instead of
characters, a diff that changes one multibyte character to another
that shares an initial byte sequence will result in a broken diff
display as the common byte sequence prefix will be separated from
the rest of the bytes in the multibyte character.
For example, if a single line contains only the unicode character
U+C9C4 (encoded as UTF-8 0xEC, 0xA7, 0x84) and that line is then
changed to the unicode character U+C9C0 (encoded as UTF-8 0xEC,
0xA7, 0x80), when operating on bytes diff-highlight will show only
the single byte change from 0x84 to 0x80 thus creating invalid UTF-8
and a broken diff display.
Fix this by putting Perl into character mode when splitting the line
and then back into byte mode after the split is finished.
The utf8::xxx functions require Perl 5.8 so we require that as well.
Also, since we are mucking with code in the split_line function, we
change a '*' quantifier to a '+' quantifier when matching the $COLOR
expression which has the side effect of speeding everything up while
eliminating useless '' elements in the returned array.
Reported-by: Yi EungJun <semtlenori@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kyle J. McKay <mackyle@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
diff --git a/contrib/diff-highlight/diff-highlight b/contrib/diff-highlight/diff-highlight
index 4a5f317..54b359b 100755
--- a/contrib/diff-highlight/diff-highlight
+++ b/contrib/diff-highlight/diff-highlight
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
#!/usr/bin/perl
+use 5.008;
use warnings FATAL => 'all';
use strict;
@@ -160,8 +161,12 @@
sub split_line {
local $_ = shift;
- return map { /$COLOR/ ? $_ : (split //) }
- split /($COLOR*)/;
+ return utf8::decode($_) ?
+ map { utf8::encode($_); $_ }
+ map { /$COLOR/ ? $_ : (split //) }
+ split /($COLOR+)/ :
+ map { /$COLOR/ ? $_ : (split //) }
+ split /($COLOR+)/;
}
sub highlight_line {
