title: Emacs ediff, foreign character sets, and text file encodings
body: <p>Whenever I use a character set in addition to latin in a text file (mixing Cyrillic and Latin, say), I usually choose utf-16 for the encoding. This way I can edit the file under OS X with either emacs or TextEdit.</p>
  
  <p>But then ediff in emacs ceases to work. It says only that "Binary files this and that differ".</p>
  
  <p>Can ediff be somehow made to work on text files that include foreign characters?</p>