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


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out?
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 09:03:14 +0200

> From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 13:00:02 +0900
> Cc: Emacs-Devel devel <address@hidden>
> 
>  > What is going on? Is grep sometimes useless on w32 now, or? (How do we
>  > handle that in Emacs?)
> 
> Emacs tries to guess what the encoding is if you don't specify it.  It
> may guess wrong in certain cases, but it should be extremely accurate
> in case of any Unicode format.

Especially with UTF-16 that always has a BOM signature.



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