From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out? Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 03:36:37 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87bp7d1o6k.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <83bp7dqcgu.fsf@gnu.org> <87mxqw28cv.fsf@tux.homenetwork> <87mxqw4oup.fsf@tux.homenetwork> <83ocbcpqif.fsf@gnu.org> <83d3rrozyw.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1286242644 12665 80.91.229.12 (5 Oct 2010 01:37:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 01:37:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org, thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com To: Juanma Barranquero Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 05 03:37:23 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 1P2wT4-0001zh-Ij for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 03:37:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34831 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P2wT3-0004v9-VE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Oct 2010 21:37:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=42467 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P2wSn-0004qX-1I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Oct 2010 21:37:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P2wSm-0007Jq-5j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Oct 2010 21:37:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-qy0-f176.google.com ([209.85.216.176]:44068) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P2wSm-0007Jk-1w; Mon, 04 Oct 2010 21:37:04 -0400 Original-Received: by qyk30 with SMTP id 30so43210qyk.0 for ; Mon, 04 Oct 2010 18:37:03 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:mime-version:received:in-reply-to :references:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=p4b91sEwNo4niERS+gknQCHRZNoMnHOrevfHsJ5LVXU=; b=l7dxjYF1QRwwZDwCdYqTV3U4v0R6CYrr6NChQwEEt+st0FxQ1V7bQGz1vZwTP1j+uU m1JiYy3lv60yhfZ05eVU5dsx20GErNaNkMQDWwbPHLroc+5yJ79x35d5E/lQXUThy1Qg x0p7vxuPCZE6+3QMgeLVF1oCyomD9OnsejkEc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; b=cuU/MaqYKl8whS/r1QLRjNkQkOIe8iV1F9RzYyxqFS09nAZnrhFYFt7CA+JVBYkxzQ SNfdFekm2fKmL+iNDKtTAVUFkz6QQ3ILnTQ7a8jv7Ck9PcCRT6U5+r8Wzor09pmoX9T2 D6Iwd3FKkDj8DBdvu92/h/n6Oc2Ui/4jEHtfc= Original-Received: by 10.224.79.11 with SMTP id n11mr7365008qak.256.1286242617551; Mon, 04 Oct 2010 18:36:57 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.229.220.195 with HTTP; Mon, 4 Oct 2010 18:36:37 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:131341 Archived-At: On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 2:56 AM, Juanma Barranquero wrote: > >> What can we do? The options I can see are: > > C.- Do nothing, and leave to the user the task of finding a tool that > can grep utf-16. > > D.- Do nothing, and leave to the user the task of converting the > utf-16 files to another coding, as utf-16 is the internal format of > 32-bit Windows APIs, but it is rarely found in files, even on Windows. How would the user no which of C and D we have choosen? If we decide on this (which seems likely now), then should we not change default file coding system to utf-8? We kind of expect that, but I do not understand what consequences changing the default file coding system will have.