From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: 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 22:42:47 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83vaam322w.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <27454117-5bab-43ce-9bf3-d9e4ac5f2219@default> (message from Drew Adams on Wed, 13 Jun 2018 12:16:09 -0700 (PDT))
> Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2018 12:16:09 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
>
> > 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.
Mention where? This is a corner use case, a subtlety, and this kind
of factoids doesn't belong to the docs, as they will never be found
there. Something for the FAQ or the wiki, perhaps.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-13 19:42 UTC|newest]
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[not found] ` <<83y3fi33or.fsf@gnu.org>
2018-06-13 19:16 ` `grep' command on MS Windows with Cygwin, looking for text with Unicode chars Drew Adams
2018-06-13 19:42 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-06-13 23:09 ` Bob Proulx
2018-06-13 23:37 ` Drew Adams
2018-06-13 18:23 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
2018-06-14 2:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-14 2:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
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