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

[Lennart Borgman]

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 3:36 AM, Lennart Borgman
<address@hidden> wrote:
> 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?

no => know ...

> 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.
>