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Re: `grep' command on MS Windows with Cygwin, looking for text with Unic
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: `grep' command on MS Windows with Cygwin, looking for text with Unicode chars |
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Wed, 13 Jun 2018 22:42:47 +0300 |
> Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2018 12:16:09 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
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> > Emacs on Windows cannot invoke subprograms with command-line arguments
> > encoded in anything but the system codepage. And Windows doesn't
> > support UTF-8 as the system codepage. Sorry.
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> Thanks for confirming, Eli.
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> I wonder if the Emacs doc should mention this, not supposing that
> users will figure it out.
Mention where? This is a corner use case, a subtlety, and this kind
of factoids doesn't belong to the docs, as they will never be found
there. Something for the FAQ or the wiki, perhaps.