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> The Plan9 grep deals with Unicode correctly and is very, very fast. Claiming that

>> dealing with Unicode correctly is a very expensive business

> is plain FUD.

If you think this is true you don't know unicode enough. I don't know how plan9 grep is implemented but if it does it with near zero overhead then it's not actually supporting Unicode, but only with a small subset of Unicode that they like. I also probably agree that that's the best part of Unicode and the rest of Unicode could burn in a fire but it's still not Unicode.




> If you think this is true you don't know unicode enough.

Yes, well, that is sort of a given for any statement about unicode (including this one).




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