Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out?

[Jan D.]

On 2010-10-01 02:37, Juanma Barranquero wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 02:29, Lennart Borgman<address@hidden>  wrote:
>
> > I actually think that there is no grep etc that handles this kind of
> > files on w32. Is there on *nix?
>
> I don't know. I don't use *nix (though I sometimes use GNU/*ux, but I
> haven't needed to grep utf-16 files).

This is one of many reasons why *nix-like OSes uses UTF-8.  Tools that 
only understand ASCII can still work on ASCII.  GNU grep understands 
UTF-8 I think.

        Jan D.