Re: dired-do-find-regexp failure with latin-1 encoding

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 29.11.2020 20:51, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > I'm not so sure. LC_ALL=C seems more problematic than -a:
> >
> > $ grep ф test.txt
> > фыва
> > $ grep -a ф test.txt
> > фыва
> > $ LC_ALL=C grep ф test.txt
> > (nothing)
> I guess this regression in Grep happened when they "internationalized"
> the DFA code, sigh...

Sorry, I double-checked, and it seems to have been caused by my terminal 
emulator too: if I set LC_ALL in Emacs and do a search through 
shell-command or dired-do-find-regexp, it succeeds.

You might want to verify this yourself, though.

> It almost sounds like we should develop our own replacement for Grep,
> one that doesn't suffer from these problems.

If we were going to bundle a new tool, we could pick some existing one. 
Perhaps one that has already been mentioned in this conversation ;-)