I'm not saying you were intentionally misleading anyone. What I'm saying is that I'm trying to correct something that I saw as misleading. Criticism is totally fair, but criticism of criticism should be fair game too. I totally appreciate that we shouldn't take these things too personally, but that cuts both ways. I wasn't saying you were trying to be misleading; I was trying to point out an inaccuracy. Given that ripgrep is my project, and myths spread easily, I try to stay on top of that.

> If you don't care or it's too much work

I mean, I do care. Windows users and the prevalence of UTF-16 is why I added the automatic transcoding in the first place. But it's not just that it's too much work; as I said, the performance regression would be so serious that people would literally stop using ripgrep unless it was disabled by default. (In addition to the fact that printing the results puts you in a precarious situation.)