From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: `grep' command on MS Windows with Cygwin, looking for text with Unicode chars Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2018 12:16:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <27454117-5bab-43ce-9bf3-d9e4ac5f2219@default> References: <<356e7bf9-3f93-448c-a067-f6b567d5aa5a@default>> <<83y3fi33or.fsf@gnu.org>> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1528917353 24719 195.159.176.226 (13 Jun 2018 19:15:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2018 19:15:53 +0000 (UTC) To: Eli Zaretskii , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 13 21:15:49 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fTBFF-0006LM-CA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2018 21:15:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36482 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fTBHM-0001lp-Iy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2018 15:18:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42990) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fTBFi-000192-LC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2018 15:16:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fTBFh-0002Jt-Mo for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2018 15:16:18 -0400 Original-Received: from aserp2120.oracle.com ([141.146.126.78]:41502) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fTBFd-00027l-Sq; Wed, 13 Jun 2018 15:16:14 -0400 Original-Received: from pps.filterd (aserp2120.oracle.com [127.0.0.1]) by aserp2120.oracle.com (8.16.0.22/8.16.0.22) with SMTP id w5DJDvnq194452; Wed, 13 Jun 2018 19:16:12 GMT DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=oracle.com; h=mime-version : message-id : date : from : sender : to : subject : references : in-reply-to : content-type : content-transfer-encoding; s=corp-2017-10-26; bh=MnnzwNgA+5hYccLa6l1F4JwO91HX11vn9ls1IByhIAg=; b=DZGwi+Xz3gYk2sZ2PPr2feqceq9j9LyUpnr0Hv3YcyKUdAMlQVTWYjVZEk6cQUqBnpf8 6uBUSmHkukjy8vXWZOb99mkumOwttaJHefcV4c+mRlV2aF5YqB7zIFw2IPMx64w9J8FK 3uT/qGtn2CyvcHLmJVA9Hxg8U/CSD68VXPzjGGqdcnFkReymvd33JR79ZWQeIeqx+DAF lrY0wij44PweDnY8anHZvODpy/s0PVRIgGhvslqVOraivtVQvuN9rMZdsj39fXHjaYil nbriVTLuIXYO6Trj3PrmgEyEcWcbs+RIPGEdpaWknYKoccgBeGuH0Dwoan8O4+X73AtA kA== Original-Received: from userv0022.oracle.com (userv0022.oracle.com [156.151.31.74]) by aserp2120.oracle.com with ESMTP id 2jk0xrj33v-1 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 13 Jun 2018 19:16:12 +0000 Original-Received: from userv0121.oracle.com (userv0121.oracle.com [156.151.31.72]) by userv0022.oracle.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id w5DJGBM7028225 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 13 Jun 2018 19:16:11 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0009.oracle.com (abhmp0009.oracle.com [141.146.116.15]) by userv0121.oracle.com (8.14.4/8.13.8) with ESMTP id w5DJGB5u020341; Wed, 13 Jun 2018 19:16:11 GMT In-Reply-To: <<83y3fi33or.fsf@gnu.org>> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.9.1 (1003210) [OL 16.0.4690.0 (x86)] X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5900 definitions=8923 signatures=668702 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 suspectscore=0 malwarescore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 spamscore=0 mlxscore=0 mlxlogscore=999 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.0.1-1805220000 definitions=main-1806130204 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 141.146.126.78 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:117145 Archived-At: > > Is there a simple way to use `M-x grep' (e.g., giving it > > some switches or escape chars or replacing them with hex > > escapes or...) to search for some text that includes > > non-ASCII Unicode chars? >=20 > Not on MS-Windows with the native Windows build of Emacs, AFAIK. I > think you will need a Cygwin build of Emacs for that, and perhaps also > a newer Cygwin Grep. >=20 > Emacs on Windows cannot invoke subprograms with command-line arguments > encoded in anything but the system codepage. And Windows doesn't > support UTF-8 as the system codepage. Sorry. Thanks for confirming, Eli. I wonder if the Emacs doc should mention this, not supposing that users will figure it out. Since Emacs otherwise supports Unicode so well now, it will be natural that some users will mistakenly expect `M-x grep' to DTRT here.