From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: `grep' command on MS Windows with Cygwin, looking for text with Unicode chars Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2018 22:42:47 +0300 Message-ID: <83vaam322w.fsf@gnu.org> References: <<356e7bf9-3f93-448c-a067-f6b567d5aa5a@default>> <<83y3fi33or.fsf@gnu.org>> <27454117-5bab-43ce-9bf3-d9e4ac5f2219@default> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1528918882 20151 195.159.176.226 (13 Jun 2018 19:41:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2018 19:41:22 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 13 21:41:18 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 1fTBdt-000589-Vi for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2018 21:41:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36581 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fTBfz-0003dN-Fp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2018 15:43:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33328) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fTBfW-0003dH-2e for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2018 15:42:58 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fTBfS-0004Ay-3G for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2018 15:42:58 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:59922) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fTBfS-0004An-06 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2018 15:42:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2625 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fTBfR-0007ku-Fm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2018 15:42:53 -0400 In-reply-to: <27454117-5bab-43ce-9bf3-d9e4ac5f2219@default> (message from Drew Adams on Wed, 13 Jun 2018 12:16:09 -0700 (PDT)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:117150 Archived-At: > Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2018 12:16:09 -0700 (PDT) > From: Drew Adams > > > 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.