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Update whirlwind tour with encoding info.

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Andrew Gallant 2017-03-14 08:22:37 -04:00
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@ -230,11 +230,10 @@ colorize your output and show line numbers, just like The Silver Searcher.
Coloring works on Windows too! Colors can be controlled more granularly with
the `--color` flag.
One last thing before we get started: `ripgrep` assumes UTF-8 *everywhere*. It
can still search files that are invalid UTF-8 (like, say, latin-1), but it will
simply not work on UTF-16 encoded files or other more exotic encodings.
[Support for other encodings may
happen.](https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues/1)
One last thing before we get started: generally speaking, `ripgrep` assumes the
input is reading is UTF-8. However, if ripgrep notices a file is encoded as
UTF-16, then it will know how to search it. For other encodings, you'll need to
explicitly specify them with the `-E/--encoding` flag.
To recursively search the current directory, while respecting all `.gitignore`
files, ignore hidden files and directories and skip binary files: