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Git grep does not support multi-byte characters (like UTF-8)

From
PTPlamen Totev <plamen.totev@abv.bg>
Date
Jul 6, 2015, 11:28 UTC
Message-ID
<2008630603.1189842.1436182096558.JavaMail.apache@nm33.abv.bg>
Hello, 
It looks like the git grep command does not support multi-byte character sets like UTF-8. As a result some of the grep functionality is not working. For example if you search for non Latin words the ignore case flag does not have effect(the search is case sensitive). I suspect there are some regular expressions that will not work as expected too. 
When I'm using the git from the shell I could use the GNU grep utility instead. But some tools like gitweb use git grep so they are not working properly with UTF-8 files with non Latin characters. 
Much of the grep code seems to be copied from the GNU grep utility but the multi-byte support is left out. I just wondered what could be the reason. 

Regards,  Plamen Totev

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  50. 07/10 gettext: add is_utf8_locale()Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Aug 21, 2015
  51. 08/10 grep/pcre: support utf-8Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Aug 21, 2015
  52. 09/10 diffcore-pickaxe: "share" regex error handling codeNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Aug 21, 2015
  53. 10/10 diffcore-pickaxe: support case insensitive match on non-asciiNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Aug 21, 2015

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