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Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out?
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Lennart Borgman |
Subject: |
Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out? |
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Sat, 2 Oct 2010 12:12:08 +0200 |
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>> From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
>> Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2010 02:33:32 +0200
>> Cc: address@hidden
>>
>> So where is the problem? Is utf-16 actually used on w32 in many apps?
>> Or is this a left-over in CCleaner?
>
> UTF-16 is used for all the Unicode APIs on Windows. That's the
> implementation of the wchar_t type on Windows. In particular, all the
> file names in the NTFS filesystem are actually stored as UTF-16, and
> all the OS databases in memory are stored in UTF-16 format.
>
> So this is not a left-over, this is what Windows uses internally.
Thanks. So then the question is why the grep program does not support
it. Is this a policy question, a lack of resources, or something else?
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, 2010/10/01
- 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 <=
- 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
- Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out?, Mathias Dahl, 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?, David Robinow, 2010/10/02