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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Andreas Schwab <address@hidden>
> Cc: "Jan D." <address@hidden>,  address@hidden,  address@hidden,  
> address@hidden
> Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 10:12:08 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> >> Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 07:37:59 +0200
> >> From: "Jan D." <address@hidden>
> >> Cc: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>,
> >>    Emacs-Devel devel <address@hidden>
> >> 
> >> 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.

What do you mean by "support"?  It compares text by comparing its
constituent bytes, without really understanding that a given sequence
of bytes is a single character.