# Cannot display Korean on the diff tool?
Category: "Web" , Tags: diff tool, dreamweaver, Korean, WinMerge
When I create a website, including DBT’s, I use Dreamweaver as an editor, of course. Though, when we need to edit the pages or if there are multiple editors (especially, as our site is multilingual one there are also translators), if we forgot to check the integrity of the remote files and the local files, it would be a disaster.
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(I have once overwritten the script for the mail form that the other one have implemented without knowing. I got informed that something’s wrong with the mail form and then finally realized what I’ve done. )
To avoid such a case, um, of course not just for this reason, but Dreamweaver DO have a diff tool function to get the difference of the remote’s and local’s!!
Well, it’s not exactly the function of the Dreamweaver itself, but it cooperates with an external diff tool.
I guess it’s already well introduced, but let me mention a little.
Edit > Preferences > File Compare category > Choose application to compare files
specify the path of the diff tool here.
I choose WinMerge. Then I tried and … it worked! (It must, but I did surprise)
It’s nice to be able to compare local and remote.
Such additional functions are not often, or mostly not introduced in reference books. So there aren’t much chance to know them and it’s a pity that maybe I’ve missed lots of useful functions. You have to spare time to check forums for such information.
Well, let’s start our point. WinMerge, I found it very useful, buuuuuuut it got garbled when displaying Korean. Although no problem with Chinese..?
In Korean, it does get difference between files and show it in yellow, but they are all transformed into dash characters and as I cannot read what it is, no way to see what are the differences.
Oh, but the menu can be shown in Korean. You can choose Korean from View > Language… Then it should be able to get difference in Korean, shouldn’t it?
The HELP is written in English and I have no clue which category the problem might be in, so it’s not solved yet. Maybe File > File encoding somewhere around here?
Our coworkers, also Shacho, are mostly programmers so maybe I should ask one of them… I know, but as I work remote from them I missed a timing to ask them and…
The website I’m working now also include Korean, so I need to do something very soon. Maybe it’s nothing difficult and solve immediately.


