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Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out?
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Miles Bader |
Subject: |
Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out? |
Date: |
Sat, 02 Oct 2010 08:35:47 +0900 |
Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
>> I actually think that there is no grep etc that handles this kind of
>> files on w32. Is there on *nix?
>
> UTF-16 is the problem, and it (basically) doesn't exist on non-w32
> platforms.
Yup.
Though it seems MS is trying to fool/coerce the rest of the world into
greater adoption of that abortion... (e.g. the C++0x standard, where
u"xxx" now means UTF-16 text...)
-Miles
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- Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out?, (continued)
Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out?, Stefan Monnier, 2010/10/01
- Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out?,
Miles Bader <=
- Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out?, Lennart Borgman, 2010/10/01
- Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out?, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/10/02
- Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out?, Lennart Borgman, 2010/10/02
- Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out?, Thierry Volpiatto, 2010/10/02
- Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out?, Lennart Borgman, 2010/10/02
- Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out?, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/10/02
- Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out?, Lennart Borgman, 2010/10/02
- Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out?, Thierry Volpiatto, 2010/10/02
- Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out?, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/10/02
- Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out?, Lennart Borgman, 2010/10/02