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

[Lennart Borgman]

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 2:56 AM, Juanma Barranquero <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> What can we do? The options I can see are:
>
> C.- Do nothing, and leave to the user the task of finding a tool that
> can grep utf-16.
>
> D.- Do nothing, and leave to the user the task of converting the
> utf-16 files to another coding, as utf-16 is the internal format of
> 32-bit Windows APIs, but it is rarely found in files, even on Windows.

How would the user no which of C and D we have choosen?

If we decide on this (which seems likely now), then should we not
change default file coding system to utf-8? We kind of expect that,
but I do not understand what consequences changing the default file
coding system will have.