Re: `grep' command on MS Windows with Cygwin, looking for text with Unicode chars

[Bob Proulx]

Drew Adams wrote:
> Since Emacs otherwise supports Unicode so well now, it will be
> natural that some users will mistakenly expect `M-x grep' to DTRT
> here.

Depending upon what you are wanting to do I might mention that emacs
dired can be very powerful here.

I am often doing C-x d to start dired.  Then using:

  C-x d RET               ;; open directory dired
  % g REGEXP <RET>        ;; mark all files containing pattern
  Q REGEXP <RET> TO <RET> ;; Perform query-replace-regexp on marked files

If nothing else then % g is a native emacs way to search contents of
files and should handle unicode as well as for other tasks.

And for work within a single buffer there is M-x occur too.

Bob