From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org, thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com
Subject: Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out?
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 03:36:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=fMY9DF20GZcCO0-NB=nxikq4DZ3ZEv5MzoMFd@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikqUCL8gs6Q-CO9Xb9qDpqxVao=dUALumo5OOu1@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 2:56 AM, Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> What can we do? The options I can see are:
>
> C.- Do nothing, and leave to the user the task of finding a tool that
> can grep utf-16.
>
> D.- Do nothing, and leave to the user the task of converting the
> utf-16 files to another coding, as utf-16 is the internal format of
> 32-bit Windows APIs, but it is rarely found in files, even on Windows.
How would the user no which of C and D we have choosen?
If we decide on this (which seems likely now), then should we not
change default file coding system to utf-8? We kind of expect that,
but I do not understand what consequences changing the default file
coding system will have.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-05 1:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-30 23:13 What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out? Lennart Borgman
2010-09-30 23:58 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-10-01 0:29 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-10-01 0:37 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-10-01 1:06 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-10-01 1:20 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-10-01 1:32 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-10-01 1:49 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-10-01 2:41 ` PJ Weisberg
2010-10-01 5:43 ` PJ Weisberg
2010-10-01 5:37 ` Jan D.
2010-10-01 7:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-01 8:12 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-10-01 12:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-01 12:40 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-10-01 17:19 ` Jan Djärv
2010-10-01 22:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-10-01 7:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-01 9:28 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-10-01 10:35 ` Mathias Dahl
2010-10-01 11:24 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2010-10-01 11:26 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-10-01 12:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-01 15:03 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-10-01 15:11 ` PJ Weisberg
2010-10-01 22:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-10-01 23:35 ` Miles Bader
2010-10-02 0:33 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-10-02 7:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-02 10:12 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-10-02 10:32 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2010-10-02 10:50 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-10-02 12:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-02 14:51 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-10-02 15:05 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2010-10-02 15:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-02 15:56 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-10-02 20:40 ` Mathias Dahl
2010-10-02 22:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-03 0:35 ` David Robinow
2010-10-03 4:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-03 4:29 ` David Robinow
2010-10-03 5:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-03 7:25 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2010-10-03 4:10 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-10-03 10:39 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2010-10-03 13:23 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2010-10-03 19:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-03 22:50 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-10-05 0:46 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-10-05 0:51 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-10-05 0:56 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-10-05 1:36 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2010-10-05 1:37 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-10-05 1:54 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-10-02 11:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-02 12:44 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-10-02 13:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-01 7:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-01 4:00 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-10-01 7:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-01 7:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
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