On 2023-06-24 14:23, Jeremy Hetzler wrote:
> I would like to request a feature to be added to grep which would enable it
> to transparently decode UTF16-LE files so they can be conveniently searched.

Not sure it's worth the effort as this format is not that common for GNU
grep, it'd be a pain to add proper support for it, and anyway 16-bit
encodings have been problematic ever since Unicode crossed the 16-bit
Rubicon. I'm not saying we'd reject a patch if someone wrote it, but I'd
say it should be low priority.