On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 6:26 PM David Cantrell <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2018-08-23 19:25, Richard Simões wrote: > > > Is it possible to configure ack to search through UTF-16 files? Ack doesn't have a FAQ answer for that yet, since this is the first time it's been asked. However, I'm intrigued, so I'm going to look into it to see if it's possible! > Setting > > the system locale isn't a workable solution for me, as there cannot be > > an en_US.utf-16 locale for Linux. > > I'd be shocked if there *can't* be. It's probably > ... > Alas he's correct that Linux reportedly requires system-wide Locales to be ASCII compatible, which UTF-16 is not, so en_US.utf-16 is not the solution. I will have to poke and prod a bit to see if there's a Perl solution. -- Bill Ricker [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ack users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/ack-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
