Change in behaviour of Notepad++ plugins Compare and ComparePlus

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The warning is: "Trying to compare files with different encodings - the result might be inaccurate and misleading. Compare anyway?"

The two files I'm comparing have been outputted from the same script. The output from the script is via

# Write to file
($street | Out-String).Trim() | Add-Content -Path $filesPathAdminElectorateStreets -Encoding UTF8

The only difference is the filename e.g file.txt & file1.txt Functionality is normal from this point on.

Why am I receiving this message? Can you suggest a fix or workaround?

Dave · Accepted Answer · 2024-07-30 05:43:04Z

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The issue is the Powershell version being used by my Visual Studio Code IDE. My VS Code was running an old version of PS (5.1) I was switching to the latest (7.4.4) manually in VS Code. This was the trap I set myself. I overlooked the fact that I had been doing this when I saved different versions of the same text file. The encodings were different for these two files because each was saved with a different version of PS.

answered Jul 30, 2024 at 5:43

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