From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Jan D." Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out? Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 07:37:59 +0200 Message-ID: <4CA573B7.4050203@swipnet.se> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1285911500 13013 80.91.229.12 (1 Oct 2010 05:38:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 05:38:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Lennart Borgman , Emacs-Devel devel To: Juanma Barranquero Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 01 07:38:19 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P1YK1-0008Pj-O4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 07:38:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33477 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P1YK1-0005Yn-7T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 01:38:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=44484 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P1YJs-0005Wp-Br for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 01:38:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P1YJr-0002kj-3e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 01:38:08 -0400 Original-Received: from smtprelay-h31.telenor.se ([213.150.131.4]:52161) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P1YJq-0002kT-Tu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 01:38:07 -0400 Original-Received: from ipb1.telenor.se (ipb1.telenor.se [195.54.127.164]) by smtprelay-h31.telenor.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65037E8F84 for ; Fri, 1 Oct 2010 07:38:02 +0200 (CEST) X-SENDER-IP: [85.225.45.35] X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Agg+AJcQpUxV4S0jPGdsb2JhbACDH4RSmkQMAQEBATUtszeRdIEigy50BI0+FoJN X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.57,263,1283724000"; d="scan'208";a="137020090" Original-Received: from c-232de155.25-1-64736c10.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se (HELO coolsville.localdomain) ([85.225.45.35]) by ipb1.telenor.se with ESMTP; 01 Oct 2010 07:38:02 +0200 Original-Received: from [10.225.32.27] (unknown [193.45.43.33]) by coolsville.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E92B67FA05A; Fri, 1 Oct 2010 07:38:00 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:131130 Archived-At: On 2010-10-01 02:37, Juanma Barranquero wrote: > On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 02:29, Lennart Borgman wrote: > >> I actually think that there is no grep etc that handles this kind of >> files on w32. Is there on *nix? > > I don't know. I don't use *nix (though I sometimes use GNU/*ux, but I > haven't needed to grep utf-16 files). > This is one of many reasons why *nix-like OSes uses UTF-8. Tools that only understand ASCII can still work on ASCII. GNU grep understands UTF-8 I think. Jan D.