On 2014-09-12 17:57:39 -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: > Currently, for example, the tz package <http://www.iana.org/time-zones> has > a Make rule 'check_character_set' that verifies that the source files are > all properly encoded. It executes this shell command: > > ! grep -nv '^.*$' file names > > This relies on GNU grep's behavior that "." does not match an encoding > error. But it's a command that is not obvious. It'd be simpler and clearer > to write this: > > ! grep -n '[[:error:]]' file names > > if such a feature were available.
But both of these solutions have the drawback of working only in UTF-8 locales. One may wonder whether grep is the right tool, as "iconv -f UTF-8 -t UTF-8" can do such a check in any locale. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
