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Why is a comparison plug-in producing no output or giving strange results when applied to clipboard contents?

April 26, 2017applied clipboard comparison Contents giving output plug-in producing results Strange

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Why is a comparison plug-in producing no output or giving strange results when applied to clipboard contents?

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The problem probably lies in the fact that ExamDiff Pro saves temporary Unicode files when plug-ins are executed on Clipboard contents, and the plug-in you used is unable to handle Unicode files. (All plug-ins on the ExamDiff Pro plug-in page are able to correctly handle Unicode files.) If you have a plug-in that doesn’t support Unicode, one solution, suggested by a user, is to create a batch file with these contents: @echo off PATH= iconv.exe -f UTF-16 -t MS-ANSI %1 | where is the path to the directory where your plug-in is, is the plug-in with any necessary command-line parameters, and iconv.exe is an iconv implementation (such as GNU libiconv), stored in the same directory as the plug-in. Then simply use this batch file in place of the original plug-in in ExamDiff Pro when you need to apply it to clipboard contents.