Splitbits

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is

Grep and Unicode (UTF-16)

Grep does not play well with Unicode, but it can be worked around. For example, to find,

  Some Search Term

in a UTF-16 file, use a regular expression to ignore the first byte in each character,

  S.o.m.e. .S.e.a.r.c.h. .T.e.r.m

Also, tell grep to treat the file as text, using '-a', the final command looks like this,

  grep -a 'S.o.m.e. .S.e.a.r.c.h. .T.e.r.m' utf-16-file.txt

Used on the file below,

  Some Other Search Term
  Some Other Search Term
  Some Other Search Term
  Some Other Search Term
  Some Other Search Term
  Some Other Search Term
  Some Search Term
  Some Other Search Term
  Some Other Search Term
  Some Search Term
  Some Other Search Term
  Some Other Search Term
  Some Search Term
  Some Other Search Term

The result will look something like this,

 grep -a "S.o.m.e. .S.e.a.r.c.h. .T.e.r.m" utf-16.txt

 S o m e   S e a r c h   T e r m
 S o m e   S e a r c h   T e r m
 S o m e   S e a r c h   T e r m

The regular expression can be modified for other Unicode formats.

Grep for windows can be found in GOW or Cygwin.