From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out? Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 10:12:08 +0200 Message-ID: References: <4CA573B7.4050203@swipnet.se> <83tyl6qscq.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1285920745 14539 80.91.229.12 (1 Oct 2010 08:12:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 08:12:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, "Jan D." , lennart.borgman@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 01 10:12:23 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 1P1aj8-0001QQ-RW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 10:12:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45047 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P1aj8-0005Zy-6P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 04:12:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=60159 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P1aj2-0005Zs-1A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 04:12:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P1aj0-00063H-MK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 04:12:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.10]:49309) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P1aiz-00061b-5S; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 04:12:13 -0400 Original-Received: from frontend1.mail.m-online.net (unknown [192.168.8.180]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95FCC1C001E6; Fri, 1 Oct 2010 10:12:09 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from hase.home (ppp-93-104-138-203.dynamic.mnet-online.de [93.104.138.203]) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 204261C00415; Fri, 1 Oct 2010 10:12:09 +0200 (CEST) X-Yow: .. If I cover this entire WALL with MAZOLA, who I have to give my AGENT ten per cent?? In-Reply-To: <83tyl6qscq.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 01 Oct 2010 09:34:13 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:131138 Archived-At: 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. But it does not support wide character encodings, only multibyte ones. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."