Issue 515: gerrit should highlight byte order markers
Status:  WontFix
Owner: ----
Closed:  Mar 2010
Reported by marco.ne...@gmail.com, Mar 25, 2010
gerrit knows that a line has changed when a byte order mark has been 
removed (see https://android-git.corp.google.com/g/#change,46579 for 
example), but isn't very good about displaying the change. It should probably 
highlight the character or print its hex-code or something. This would also 
make it possible to catch accidental adding of lines with byte order marks.

Mar 26, 2010
#1 sop@google.com
android-git.corp is running a special binary which has the
intraline difference feature disabled, even though there is
an enabled checkbox in the UI.  Not sure why its still using
that one-off hack build I made.

If the intraline difference was enabled, it would have shown
you the region has being removed.

Not sure I can really do anything special about a byte order
mark at the start of a line.  It looks the same as some byte
followed by a tab apparently, because that is what the UI is
rendering it as after going through character set detection on
the complete file content.
Status: WontFix