ag cannot find accent letters

[xc1427]

Version: windows port 0.29.1-1641 (built on 2015-07-04)
System: windows 7 pro, language français
Issue: Ag cannot find french accent letter, such as ô, é, è, ç, à, etc.

[JFLarvoire]

Bonjour,
Having the same problem, I've just done another port of ag for Windows that can find non-ASCII characters... But so far only in text files encoded as UTF-8.
Also, it will find files that have non-ASCII characters in their pathname.
The sources are there: https://github.com/JFLarvoire/the_silver_searcher
If you don't have Visual C++ for rebuilding it, I've uploaded pre-built versions in: https://github.com/JFLarvoire/the_silver_searcher/releases/download/1.0.2-Windows/ag.zip
Eventually, I plan to add a dynamic detection of the encoding (ANSI/UTF-8/Unicode), to allow finding non-ASCII characters in any kind of text file.
Jean-François

[skrattaren]

This should be an issue for Windows port author. If it was ag issue, it has been fixed already:

 % ag ô /tmp/ag.txt  
1:ô, é, è, ç, à

(Linux amd64)

[JFLarvoire]

Yes, this was indeed a problem in previous Windows ports, not in Unix builds.
I've released a few days ago a new version 2.0.0 for Windows with full support for this at last:
https://github.com/JFLarvoire/the_silver_searcher/releases
As proposed in my previous post above, it dynamically detects the encoding, and can search both in files encoded in UTF-8 and in the Windows System code Page (CP 1252 for west-european versions of Windows).
And whatever the file encoding, and whatever the current console code page, the strings found will be displayed correctly.