Thanks Paul. I understand. Appreciate the quick response.
Yours, Jeremy On Sat, Jun 24, 2023 at 6:17 PM Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> wrote: > On 2023-06-24 14:23, Jeremy Hetzler wrote: > > I would like to request a feature to be added to grep which would enable > it > > to transparently decode UTF16-LE files so they can be conveniently > searched. > > Not sure it's worth the effort as this format is not that common for GNU > grep, it'd be a pain to add proper support for it, and anyway 16-bit > encodings have been problematic ever since Unicode crossed the 16-bit > Rubicon. I'm not saying we'd reject a patch if someone wrote it, but I'd > say it should be low priority. > -- Thanks, Jeremy Hetzler (he/him) 203-887-5398
