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: Sat, 2 Oct 2010 14:44:31 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87bp7d1o6k.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <83bp7dqcgu.fsf@gnu.org> <831v88rejn.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 1286023542 22894 80.91.229.12 (2 Oct 2010 12:45:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2010 12:45:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, miles@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 02 14:45:41 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 1P21T7-0002uH-Tm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Oct 2010 14:45:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46558 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P21T7-00047C-Bv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Oct 2010 08:45:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=39144 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P21T1-000470-AZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Oct 2010 08:45:32 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P21T0-0000Dt-4i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Oct 2010 08:45:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-qw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.216.41]:39321) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P21Sy-0000D2-Bj; Sat, 02 Oct 2010 08:45:28 -0400 Original-Received: by qwb8 with SMTP id 8so2083232qwb.0 for ; Sat, 02 Oct 2010 05:45:26 -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=wbu2Fs8v0TpDneHnFgc8o4kw8/e1lbh6nT0C9H00sZY=; b=IzyYVVBOO/gmU14x8qrrGrCSJm4zs3exqH7wUhp0raWD5ESKjSp+KY7j1ka+21Ub89 HOKYnIlZ6Da/a6sSVI89WE7sFx35+TfGb35d7xwAtSL6m/z2n6uwLau8YRH53ig5HbSL 4XHc6PR4HMhU3+8EY5Dou+WsKbUfEfhBCbcvE= 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=eAf0C4fn6GMkNvAgZMHEanqG1efxzbb2VGaoaTDGsKGkIYKKy85c7nIgRsQiwxdaAd UQyX84E5UPSP4rrO0t6+Ec3MGtVXrjYYEX458jYGVYm5HI7K5/6DYJBRgy6+k5yguIaA T1QiF7AzDaor4hzH5e2pXDUoe67Sv3WRYzgWA= Original-Received: by 10.229.184.68 with SMTP id cj4mr5040033qcb.48.1286023491394; Sat, 02 Oct 2010 05:44:51 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.229.220.195 with HTTP; Sat, 2 Oct 2010 05:44:31 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <831v88rejn.fsf@gnu.org> 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:131234 Archived-At: On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: Lennart Borgman >> Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2010 12:12:08 +0200 >> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, miles@gnu.org >> >> Thanks. So then the question is why the grep program does not support >> it. > > Because no one has coded that in Grep, I'd guess. Is that really the whole answer? If utf-16 is so widely used on w32 then is it not surprising that it is not understood by Grep? Maybe you are right, but it would be interesting to get some more insight in this.