Hi Carlo! On Sat, 8 Aug 2020 15:13:40 +0200 <ca...@kwpg.info> wrote:
> Its 2020. > > GREP really should support Unicode. (UTF-16, UTF-8, with and without > signature) Format recognition wouldn't have to be automatic; command line > switches would be sufficient. > From what I recall gnu grep has supported UTF-8 and unicode for years. E.g: « shlomif[homepage]:$trunk$ rg -n 'שלום' src/humour/fortunes/shlomif.xml 8120:the Hebrew Wikipedia. סעי לשלום - המפתחות בפנים! 8690:<saying who="rindolf">archmint: שלום!</saying> shlomif[homepage]:$trunk$ grep -n 'שלום' src/humour/fortunes/shlomif.xml 8120:the Hebrew Wikipedia. סעי לשלום - המפתחות בפנים! 8690:<saying who="rindolf">archmint: שלום!</saying> shlomif[homepage]:$trunk$ grep --version grep (GNU grep) 3.4 Copyright (C) 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Written by Mike Haertel and others; see <https://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git/tree/AUTHORS>. shlomif[homepage]:$trunk$ uname -a Linux telaviv1.shlomifish.org 5.7.12-desktop-1.mga8 #1 SMP Sat Aug 1 21:39:47 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux shlomif[homepage]:$trunk$ » note that "שלום" is the hebrew spelling of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shalom . Regards, Shlomi Fish > I am using version Git for Windows v2.25.0 > > Kind regards > > > > > -- Shlomi Fish https://www.shlomifish.org/ https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/New-versions-of-the-GPL/ Wikipedia has a page about everything including the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitchen_sink . — https://www.shlomifish.org/humour.html Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - https://shlom.in/reply .
