Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:Depends.
Isn't Word Unicode? Doesn't that mean strings will be, pretty much,
useless with it?
To tell you the truth, last time I did that was a few years ago, but then it was a great way to read Word documents that did not have too much graphics in them. Maybe things changed since then, in which case I'll apologize humbly. I also have no idea if the -e option will be of any use.
I must admit I am mostly ignorant about Unicode and other stuff like that. Will it affect grep (which is, IIRC, the OP's ultimate goal)?
If you are using Unicode encoded with UTF-8, all ASCII characters remain the same, and it follows trivially that no change to grep's operation.
If you are using UTF-16 (as most Windows apps do. More precisely, most Windows app that use Unicode do, which makes it an insignificant minority of Windows app, but that's a different story), then ASCII characters will appear as one ASCII character, one NULL. Under those conditions, I can imagine both grep and strings will have a difficult time of parsing the file.
Shachar
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