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.


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