devalbo/table_differ — pull request #7 by BenMPen (2013-07-03 16:21:43+00:00)
Title: Cleaning up the comparison code to do xls comparisons in unicode.

Comparing xls spreadsheets with unicode non-ascii characters were crashing the comparison, preventing us from comparing spreadsheets with non-ascii characters. If we do the comparison in unicode instead of char, we can both see the exact text as it is in the spreadsheet, and do xls comparisons with arbitrary unicode in it.