On Thu, Aug 23, 2018, 19:57 Bill Ricker <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > 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? > > It looks, so far, as if it should be possible to implement a patch to enable this at least. We already peak at files' magic number and shebang #! lines, so checking for a Unicode prefix shouldn't disrupt existing code much. I'm going to wander through CPAN and see if there's a Unicode module that will automate detect ing the BOM and setting the UTF binmode accordingly. (It's vaguely possible one of them would work without a patch via Perl -MUnicode::something bin/ack but I'm not that optimistic -- yet. But it's plausible.) Richard, do you happen to know of a public (CC or PD etc) file that is already UTF-16 that we can use as test data? Bill -- 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.
