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

[Miles Bader]

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...)

-Miles

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