Feature Request: auto-detect encodings

[man0xff]

I use icdiff with git. It's awesome! But some of my project files are not in utf8 and I can not view diff with that files. Would it be more reliable not to throw exception but to convert bad symbols as escape sequences or stub chars?
$ git diff HEAD~
error: file '/tmp/R97Zaw_http.c' not valid with encoding 'utf-8': <invalid continuation byte> at 74350-74351

[tenfyzhong]

I get the same error when I diff two binary file.

[thinrope]

The correct way will be to enable encoding auto-detection instead. There are many libraries for that.
At the moment use something like --encoding=ISO8859 for example (use file MYFILE.txt to check the encoding).

[asvd]

I resolved it with uchardet tool, like this:

icdiff --encoding=$(uchardet $file1) $file1 $file2