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author | Andrew Gallant <jamslam@gmail.com> | 2017-03-14 08:22:37 -0400 |
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committer | Andrew Gallant <jamslam@gmail.com> | 2017-03-14 08:22:37 -0400 |
commit | 46f94826fdb6e3061362ac975cb18edc8c98c30a (patch) | |
tree | 939ba94514a85403579b19fbb8753b53ba96ef47 /README.md | |
parent | 75f1855a91ca00b5d0e62740595b1b91bc5142a2 (diff) |
Update whirlwind tour with encoding info.
Fixes #1
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions
@@ -230,11 +230,10 @@ colorize your output and show line numbers, just like The Silver Searcher. Coloring works on Windows too! Colors can be controlled more granularly with the `--color` flag. -One last thing before we get started: `ripgrep` assumes UTF-8 *everywhere*. It -can still search files that are invalid UTF-8 (like, say, latin-1), but it will -simply not work on UTF-16 encoded files or other more exotic encodings. -[Support for other encodings may -happen.](https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues/1) +One last thing before we get started: generally speaking, `ripgrep` assumes the +input is reading is UTF-8. However, if ripgrep notices a file is encoded as +UTF-16, then it will know how to search it. For other encodings, you'll need to +explicitly specify them with the `-E/--encoding` flag. To recursively search the current directory, while respecting all `.gitignore` files, ignore hidden files and directories and skip binary files: |