🚀 Don't escape unicode chars in the otput

[eugenesvk]

When using some special chars in file names I get escaped ugliness in the output

delta '~/Dev/1/file—2.txt' '~/Dev/1/file—1.txt'

~/Dev/1/file\342\200\2242.txt ⟶   ~/Dev/1/file\342\200\2241.txt

Is it possible to just leave the symbols as is?
Sorry if I've missed some config, tried searching 'unicode' and 'escape' in the help files

[Freed-Wu]

Similar problem for other unicode characters. The above is git diff, the below is delta:

[Freed-Wu]

Even the mid line cannot be aligned.

[opennomad]

I did some more digging and since the docs mention highlighting is based on bat, I took a look there and found issue 2578, which looks similar.

The recommendations there worked for me. I first tested the same file with bat and also saw the <U+....>. Disabling the paging showed the correct symbol, which points to less as the culprit.

So I set export LESSUTFCHARDEF=E000-F8FF:p,F0000-FFFFD:p,100000-10FFFD:p and both bat and delta started showing the symbols.

[th1000s]

That is git which escapes the paths, the related move is fixed in #1840. To not quote it set

[core]
     quotepath = false

The (unrelated) LESSUTFCHARDEF issue with newer less versions is fixed in 0.18.0 see this comment on #1616 for more.