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From: | Jan D. |
Subject: | Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out? |
Date: | Fri, 01 Oct 2010 07:37:59 +0200 |
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On 2010-10-01 02:37, Juanma Barranquero wrote:
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 02:29, Lennart Borgman<address@hidden> wrote:I actually think that there is no grep etc that handles this kind of files on w32. Is there on *nix?I don't know. I don't use *nix (though I sometimes use GNU/*ux, but I haven't needed to grep utf-16 files).
This is one of many reasons why *nix-like OSes uses UTF-8. Tools that only understand ASCII can still work on ASCII. GNU grep understands UTF-8 I think.
Jan D.
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