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author | Mateusz Konieczny <matkoniecz@gmail.com> | 2021-11-22 15:48:42 +0100 |
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committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2021-11-22 09:48:42 -0500 |
commit | 0b36942f680bfa9ae88a564f2636aa8286470073 (patch) | |
tree | f787d33946465b6c8caabc4ccdb0e073ea17c1c1 | |
parent | 7e05cde008c25940fb777ab1ae0c26c181692764 (diff) |
doc: transcoding is done in addition to search
Even if transcoding would be faster than search it would still incur
performance penalty. We make this clearer by tweaking the wording.
PR #2079
-rw-r--r-- | GUIDE.md | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -648,9 +648,9 @@ given, which is the default: they correspond to a UTF-16 BOM, then ripgrep will transcode the contents of the file from UTF-16 to UTF-8, and then execute the search on the transcoded version of the file. (This incurs a performance penalty since transcoding - is slower than regex searching.) If the file contains invalid UTF-16, then - the Unicode replacement codepoint is substituted in place of invalid code - units. + is needed in addition to regex searching.) If the file contains invalid + UTF-16, then the Unicode replacement codepoint is substituted in place of + invalid code units. * To handle other cases, ripgrep provides a `-E/--encoding` flag, which permits you to specify an encoding from the [Encoding Standard](https://encoding.spec.whatwg.org/#concept-encoding-get). |