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

[Lennart Borgman]

On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 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.


Thanks. So then the question is why the grep program does not support
it. Is this a policy question, a lack of resources, or something else?