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 14:44:31 +0200
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
> >> Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2010 12:12:08 +0200
> >> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> >>
> >> Thanks. So then the question is why the grep program does not support
> >> it.
> >
> > Because no one has coded that in Grep, I'd guess.
> 
> 
> Is that really the whole answer? If utf-16 is so widely used on w32
> then is it not surprising that it is not understood by Grep?

Look at the ChangeLog in Grep distribution: there are exactly zero
contributors of Windows related code there.  About the only entry that
mentions Windows is a minor bug fixed 6 months ago.  And that's it.