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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2010 02:33:32 +0200
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> So where is the problem? Is utf-16 actually used on w32 in many apps?
> Or is this a left-over in CCleaner?

UTF-16 is used for all the Unicode APIs on Windows.  That's the
implementation of the wchar_t type on Windows.  In particular, all the
file names in the NTFS filesystem are actually stored as UTF-16, and
all the OS databases in memory are stored in UTF-16 format.

So this is not a left-over, this is what Windows uses internally.