Can Bindiff compare resources?

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
java
Domain
reverse-engineering

Research direction

The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by locating how Bindiff handles binary resources and their references, then determine the expected comparison behavior for differing resource strings; done means the issue's example changes can be detected.

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Description

enhancement question

I have 2 binaries that are different in the resource section.
E.g. one has:
...
.rdata:000000014064D9E0 text "UTF-16LE", 'Some text or variables',0
.rdata:000000014064D9EE align 10h
...
and the other has:
.rdata:000000014064D9E0 text "UTF-16LE", 'Other text and variables',0
.rdata:000000014064D9EE align 10h
...

Can Bindiff detect these changes?
Of course this is not pure text comparison as these are related to functions and referenced in teh code.

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