utf-8 support

[trebitzki]

Is it possible to search in utf-8 files? I have some foreign names in my file and the -ia option doesn't return those names. I also tried the codepages 437, 850 and 8859 with the -CP option. Is there any workaround?

[Wikinaut]

I am very sorry, but this appears to be not possible, as far as I understand the algorithms (agrep uses a plurality of algorithms).

[Wikinaut]

Pls. keep in mind, that agrep is very very old.

[Wikinaut]

@trebitzki perhaps one of the agrep-alternatives (see https://github.com/Wikinaut/agrep/blob/master/README.md ) is able to search utf-8. I never had the time to check them all thoroughly.

if you find something: please report here!

[polluks]

See https://github.com/Genivia/ugrep.