On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 06:53:35AM +0000, Noel Torres wrote: > > Hughe Chung <janpeng...@riseup.net> escribió: > > >Hi, > > > >I got to use -a option to search words on C code files. > > > > > >$ grep tesselate dome_math.c > >Binary file dome_math.c matches > > Is this only due to encoding, or may be due to a DOS/Unix difference? > > If I were to bet, I would say that the file dome_math.c is not > correctly formatted, or has an incorrect BOM at start, or so.
I've occasionally had a program that accepted UTF-8 reject a file because it *had* a valid BOM at the start. It was a C compiler that refused such a C program. Don't know what other programs might do. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
