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

[Andreas Schwab]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Andreas Schwab <address@hidden>
>> Cc: "Jan D." <address@hidden>,  address@hidden,  address@hidden,  
>> address@hidden
>> Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 10:12:08 +0200
>> 
>> 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>
>> >> 
>> >> GNU grep understands UTF-8 I think.
>> >
>> > 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.
>
> What do you mean by "support"?

There is no "support" in that sentence?

> It compares text by comparing its constituent bytes, without really
> understanding that a given sequence of bytes is a single character.

You are wrong.

Andreas.

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