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

[Lennart Borgman]

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?

Maybe you are right, but it would be interesting to get some more
insight in this.