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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2010 00:29:41 -0400
> From: David Robinow <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, 
>       address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> > How did you test that?
>  I found a UTF-16 file on my computer. Used 'TYPE' from a cmd window
> to see the data.

I'm not interested in TYPE, it's an internal command of CMD, not a
program.

> Used cygwin 'file' to verify that it was UTF-16.
> Then cygwin 'grep' which failed (I don't have a Windows version but
> nobody claims it works anyway). Then 'FIND' from a cmd window (using
> the same string which failed for grep) and it worked.

What string did you use with FIND, and (assuming it included non-ASCII
characters) how did you type it into the CMD window?