findstr - a big problem with Unicode
I very often use the "findstr" command-line command to act as a poor-mans text searching tool in 2000/XP/2003. However, something I have long suspected, I have now confirmed, after doing some web searching. Findstr does not support Unicode! Now, this may not mean anything to you, but Win32 in NT and CE use Unicode as their native text format. This means that modern text files (such as Virtual PC .vmc files, which is what I was trying to search) cannot be searched using findstr! Back to "find" or some version of grep for me! See also
this blog entry at asp.net.