bug#64277: [feature request] handle files encoded in utf-16le

[Jeremy Hetzler]

Thanks Paul.

I understand. Appreciate the quick response.

Yours,
Jeremy

On Sat, Jun 24, 2023 at 6:17 PM Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:

> On 2023-06-24 14:23, Jeremy Hetzler wrote:
> > I would like to request a feature to be added to grep which would enable
> it
> > to transparently decode UTF16-LE files so they can be conveniently
> searched.
>
> Not sure it's worth the effort as this format is not that common for GNU
> grep, it'd be a pain to add proper support for it, and anyway 16-bit
> encodings have been problematic ever since Unicode crossed the 16-bit
> Rubicon. I'm not saying we'd reject a patch if someone wrote it, but I'd
> say it should be low priority.
>


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