From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out? Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 14:00:53 +0200 Message-ID: <83pqvuqg0a.fsf@gnu.org> References: <4CA573B7.4050203@swipnet.se> <83tyl6qscq.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1285934472 10084 80.91.229.12 (1 Oct 2010 12:01:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 12:01:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, jan.h.d@swipnet.se, lennart.borgman@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 01 14:01:09 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 1P1eIX-0006Y3-46 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 14:01:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57138 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P1eIW-0006g0-2r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 08:01:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=37820 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P1eIM-0006eU-Nl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 08:01:00 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P1eIK-00037p-52 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 08:00:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:60809) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P1eIJ-00036u-Ud for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 08:00:56 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0L9M000000F01D00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 14:00:52 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.229.77.74]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0L9M00LYX1DCRFL0@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 14:00:50 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) 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:131150 Archived-At: > From: Andreas Schwab > Cc: "Jan D." , lekktu@gmail.com, lennart.borgman@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 10:12:08 +0200 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > >> Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 07:37:59 +0200 > >> From: "Jan D." > >> Cc: Lennart Borgman , > >> Emacs-Devel devel > >> > >> GNU grep understands UTF-8 I think. > > > > Not really. Grep just compares bytes one by one, it knows nothing > > about multibyte characters. > > grep uses exactly the character encoding as specified by the locale. What do you mean by "support"? It compares text by comparing its constituent bytes, without really understanding that a given sequence of bytes is a single character.