Re: Request: utf-8 support in `strings`

2019-08-23 Thread Nick Clifton
Hi B9, > "Strings" is a fabulous and under-appreciated program. However, it only works > on text which has a fixed number of bytes per character such as Latin-1 or > UTF-16. Since almost all Unix systems now default to UTF-8 (which can be from > 1 to 6 bytes long), it would be wonderful if stri

Request: utf-8 support in `strings`

2019-08-23 Thread hackerb9
"Strings" is a fabulous and under-appreciated program. However, it only works on text which has a fixed number of bytes per character such as Latin-1 or UTF-16. Since almost all Unix systems now default to UTF-8 (which can be from 1 to 6 bytes long), it would be wonderful if strings was updated to