I then right-clicked on the old file on the left, UnicodeData.txt, and selected View/Edit (shortcut Ctrl F1).I selected the changed line or lines in UnicodeData7.txt and copied them to the clipboard (Ctrl C).On finding a difference in the more recent file I selected that line and showed the whole of both files (Ctrl D).Initially, I showed the differences only (shortcut Ctrl D).In the screen shot above the application is shown in a window so that it fits this web page. I left all other miscellaneous options unchanged, and ran the application in a maximised window. I changed this to Notepad2 which can display line numbers so it was easier to find my place while editing. I made no changes to the default options for white space or Ignore case. Not being very comfortable with hexadecimal code-points, I left the line numbers displayed. The colours can be changed too, but I left them at the default settings. I changed the default font from Courier to Verdana, which is much more legible, and increased the size to 18 point.

ExamDiff made this tedious task extremely easy. Many lines of text had been added since the previous version, but I wanted to keep the changes that I had made to the previous version to customise my version of FontCreator. The screen shot below shows the changes remaining after editing UnicodeData.txt, which I wanted to update for Unicode 7.0.

The Options can be changed from this dialog, or later after the file comparison has been performed.Ĭomparing files is extremely fast, even with my large Unicode data files which are more than 27,000 lines.Īfter performing the comparison, the two files are shown in vertically tiled windows, highlighting the differences between the two files, line by line. This remembers the last pair of files used, so if it’s a long job one can resume later with a minimum of effort. On starting the program, the compare dialog opens where one can select two files to be compared. It is easy to use, and configurable to use different fonts, or a text editor of your choice if you want to use something better than Notepad. This free utility compares two text files for differences. a shared repository for the source or document files is a must.

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