Re: unicode

[Sam Hocevar <sam@zoy.org>]

On Wed, Oct 30, 2002, Sergey V. Spiridonov wrote:

> For example, grep is not able to search unicode strings.

   Yes it is. Are you sure you are using a unicode locale?

   See for instance:

$ export LC_ALL=fr_FR
$ echo "skål" | iconv -f iso8859-1 -t utf8 | grep -q "sk.l" && echo OK
$ export LC_ALL=fr_FR.UTF8
$ echo "skål" | iconv -f iso8859-1 -t utf8 | grep -q "sk.l" && echo OK
OK
$

> So, should I file a bug with "important" severity for grep?

   No.

-- 
Sam.