Re: [Nmh-workers] Non-ASCII Characters in bodies and subjects

[Jerrad Pierce]

>So you are saying that "normal unix commands", such as grep, wc, tr etc, do or
>someday the GNU versions will, know about UTF-8, at least for file contents,
>if not for file names?
No, he's saying grep is a tool meant for generic text. It knows nothing of mail,
and therefore nothing of the encoding scheme used to represent UTF-8 as ASCII
in headers.

ack <http://beyondgrep.com/> might, or could certainly be made to do so