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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> 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?  What tool does, besides Emacs?  You are supposed to
tell it the encoding using the -Encoding option.

> 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).