From: Plamen Totev <plamen.totev@abv.bg>
Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2015 11:28:16 GMT
Subject: Git grep does not support multi-byte characters (like UTF-8)
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