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

[Lennart Borgman]

On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 1:35 AM, Miles Bader <address@hidden> wrote:
> Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
>>> I actually think that there is no grep etc that handles this kind of
>>> files on w32. Is there on *nix?
>>
>> UTF-16 is the problem, and it (basically) doesn't exist on non-w32
>> platforms.
>
> Yup.
>
> Though it seems MS is trying to fool/coerce the rest of the world into
> greater adoption of that abortion... (e.g. the C++0x standard, where
> u"xxx" now means UTF-16 text...)


So where is the problem? Is utf-16 actually used on w32 in many apps?
Or is this a left-over in CCleaner?

If utf-16 is actually used is this there then a policy to not support
it in grep or is it a lack of resources? (Whatever the case it makes
grep a pretty unreliable tool.)