Re: Output of dpkg-scanpackages as XML
William Ballard wrote:
[...]
But back to Linux.
$echo hi | iconv -f utf8 -t unicode | grep hi
(no output)
Not surprised; grep understands ASCII, AFAIK, so what you've just sent to it is:
$ echo hi | iconv -f utf8 -t unicode | od -t x1
0000000 ff fe 68 00 69 00 0a 00
It can't find an 'h' and an 'i' next to each other. That's why I mentioned
UTF8; UTF8 has the nice property that anything that can be represented in
plain ASCII *is*, and all other characters are high-bit, which grep and
friends will pass straight through.
It's still an ad-hoc solution, though; does anyone know of versions of the
standard textutils that know about Unicode?
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