On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 2:08 AM Richard Simões <[email protected]> wrote:

> Can you confirm that my suggested hack with explicit Perl invocation and
>> IO code injection works with ack and your BOM-UTF-16 data?
>>
>
> With Perl 5.26 and ack 2.18:
>
> $ perl  -C '-Mopen IO=>":encoding(UTF-16LE)"' /usr/local/bin/ack --noenv
> test
> UTF-16LE:Partial character at /usr/local/bin/ack line 525.
> UTF-16LE:Partial character at /usr/local/bin/ack line 525.
> UTF-16LE:Partial character at /usr/local/bin/ack line 543, <__ANONIO__>
> line 1.
>
> I'm shocked, shocked that an MS App writes a naughty character in UTF-16.
(Pleasantly surprised you didn't get bad surrogate pair warnings.)

Guessing they've not UTF-16LE encoded the trailing Ctrl-Z EOF ?
(Confusingly in UTF-16LE, EOF should be ^Z \000 .  Any app not doing UTF
should treat as Binary and ignore ^Z !)


If you *2>/dev/null*,  to mask the noise, and search for a word that
appears in the files, do you get sensible results ?

-- 
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.

Reply via email to