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Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out?
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out? |
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Fri, 01 Oct 2010 10:12:08 +0200 |
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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>
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>> GNU grep understands UTF-8 I think.
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> 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.
But it does not support wide character encodings, only multibyte ones.
Andreas.
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Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out?, PJ Weisberg, 2010/10/01
Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out?, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/10/01
Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out?, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/10/01