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

[Stefan Monnier]

> What do you mean by "support"?  It compares text by comparing its
> constituent bytes, without really understanding that a given sequence
> of bytes is a single character.

A little test shows that "grep foo.bar ~/tmp/foobar"
finds in foobar the line "fooébar" even though that é uses
several bytes (I'm using a utf-8 locale).

Similarly "grep 'é*' toto" and "grep '[éa]' toto" will correctly treat
the several bytes in é as a single element.


        Stefan