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From: Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com>
Subject: diff treating text files as binary
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I dont know when this changed, but diff under 8-STABLE has started
treating UTF-8 text files as if they were binary. diff under 7-STABLE
doesnt do this, and the files in question are valid UTF-8 (and I
have my locale set to en_GB.UTF-8).

Deliberate ? Or should I file a PR ?

-pete.