From: Tomas Nordin <tomasn@posteo.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: `grep' command on MS Windows with Cygwin, looking for text with Unicode chars
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2018 21:43:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wov28oav.fsf@fliptop.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83y3fi33or.fsf@gnu.org>
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2018 11:23:47 -0700 (PDT)
>> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
>>
>> 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?
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
Sorry for a naive question, but the "system codepage" or "current system
codepage" wording is used now and then in relation to non-ascii problems
on Windows. If on Windows, what is a good way to figure out the
current system codepage?
--
Tomas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-13 19:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-13 18:23 `grep' command on MS Windows with Cygwin, looking for text with Unicode chars Drew Adams
2018-06-13 18:40 ` Óscar Fuentes
2018-06-13 19:09 ` Drew Adams
2018-06-13 19:16 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-06-13 19:22 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-06-13 19:28 ` Drew Adams
2018-06-13 19:26 ` Drew Adams
2018-06-13 19:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-13 19:43 ` Tomas Nordin [this message]
2018-06-14 2:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-14 2:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] <<356e7bf9-3f93-448c-a067-f6b567d5aa5a@default>
[not found] ` <<83y3fi33or.fsf@gnu.org>
2018-06-13 19:16 ` Drew Adams
2018-06-13 19:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-13 23:09 ` Bob Proulx
2018-06-13 23:37 ` Drew Adams
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