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

[Lennart Borgman]

On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>> From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
>> Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2010 06:10:14 +0200
>> Cc: Thierry Volpiatto <address@hidden>, address@hidden
>>
>>   http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd315403.aspx
>>
>> it does not look as it autodetects the coding system in the file.
>
> Why should it?

I don't understand why you are asking. The answer is of course:
Because it would be useful when searching for words in many files (and
you do not know their coding system).

Or, don't you think so?

> What tool does, besides Emacs?

I am not sure, but I would expect at least some better search
engines/indexers to do this. I can't see how they can avoid it.

>> It does not even say it can handle utf-16, or at least I can't find
>> it.
>
> It does support UTF-16.  That's the "Unicode" part of the values you
> can submit to the -Encoding option (you need to "think MS" to get it).

Thanks.