fd: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'

Re:fd: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find' by whytevuhuni on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @04:17PM (#43416799)

I found this interesting, so I tried to test it:

On LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8:

    $ echo $'O\u011Fuz' | grep -E '^.{4}$'
    Oğuz
    $ echo $'O\u011Fuz' | rg '^.{4}$'
    Oğuz

On LC_ALL=en_US.ISO-8859-1:

    $ echo $'O\xF0uz' | grep -E '^.{4}$'
    O�uz
    $ echo $'O\xF0uz' | rg '^.{4}$'

It strangely doesn't find anything at all:

    $ echo $'O\xF0uz' | rg '^.*$' | wc -c
    0

It only does once the $ anchor is removed:

    $ echo $'O\xF0uz' | rg '^.*' | wc -c
    5

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Re:fd: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find' by burntsushi on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @10:19PM (#43419338)

It's not strange because ripgrep doesn't understand non-UTF-8 data (unless there's a UTF-16 BOM, in which case, ripgrep will automatically understand it). But you can tell it to:

    $ echo $'O\xF0uz' | rg -E iso-8859-1 '^.{4}$'
    Oðuz

The person you're responding to has been trolling in this thread (and others) by twisting words and claiming multiple false things. When I've fixed their errors, they don't acknowledge them as mistakes and just keep on twisting words.

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