Re: Not sure if a Bug

John Cowan <[email protected]> Wed, 11 Dec 2019 13:34:58 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.utils.bugs
Message-ID <CAD2gp_QCUU7RXwD-wrrx2Ymh=WM6+npevrJbczBOLv-wG7odng@mail.gmail.com>
It's a UTF-16 file, probably created on Windows, and your locale doesn't
use UTF-16 (nobody does).  Use this pipeline:

iconv -f UTF-16 Unicode.txt | grep 'COL#4'

On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 1:23 PM Erand Mulla <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Does grep not work on Unicode files? Please find a sample file attached
> for which I could not get grep to work. Not sure if I am missing an option.
>
> Best reagrds,
> Erand Mulla
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