git diff shows unicode symbols in angle brackets

Question

I have a file with unicode symbols (russian text). When I fix some typo I use git diff --color-words=. to see the changes I\'ve done.

In case of unicode

Answer 1

The solution for me was to use git difftool.

I wrote this tool https://github.com/chestozo/dmp based on https://code.google.com/p/google-diff-match-patch/.

Sometimes it also gives better diff comparing to git diff --color-words=. :)