use pre instead of code for unicode

Sure enough...this is a repeat of the diff command with pre tags:

$ echo Привет >3.file
$ diff 1.file 3.file
1c1
< ������
---
> Привет
$

Hmmm, well there it is. I tried pre tags in the writeup but must not have pasted it in and previewed correctly. There is something to learn from seeing the numerical representations of these characters. Indeed, I was surprised that 65533 * 6 was what diff thought 1.file was. It is the unicode replacement character: U+FFFD. Further reading and clarification here: unicode specials

How did you get single code and pre tags to display (surrounded by <>) and not foul the legibility?

Also, is there a way to employ the diff command so that the equality in these files could be established? (not essential or vital to this coding task)

In reply to Re^4: create clone script for utf8 encoding by Aldebaran
in thread create clone script for utf8 encoding by Aldebaran

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