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

[Thierry Volpiatto]

Lennart Borgman <address@hidden> writes:

> On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
>>> Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2010 02:33:32 +0200
>>> Cc: address@hidden
>>>
>>> So where is the problem? Is utf-16 actually used on w32 in many apps?
>>> Or is this a left-over in CCleaner?
>>
>> UTF-16 is used for all the Unicode APIs on Windows.  That's the
>> implementation of the wchar_t type on Windows.  In particular, all the
>> file names in the NTFS filesystem are actually stored as UTF-16, and
>> all the OS databases in memory are stored in UTF-16 format.
>>
>> So this is not a left-over, this is what Windows uses internally.
>
>
> Thanks. So then the question is why the grep program does not support
> it. Is this a policy question, a lack of resources, or something else?
>
>
It seem most modern windows versions come with powershell.
Why windows users don't use it as backend for Emacs instead of using
external Gnuwin32 programs?

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