doc: clarify automatic encoding detection

Fixes #1103
2019-01-26 13:55:17 -05:00
parent afb89bcdad
commit 6d5dba85bd
3 changed files with 11 additions and 3 deletions
--- a/GUIDE.md
+++ b/GUIDE.md
@@ -609,7 +609,8 @@ topic, but we can try to summarize its relevancy to ripgrep:
  the most popular encodings likely consist of ASCII, latin1 or UTF-8. As
  a special exception, UTF-16 is prevalent in Windows environments

-In light of the above, here is how ripgrep behaves:
+In light of the above, here is how ripgrep behaves when `--encoding auto` is
+given, which is the default:

 * All input is assumed to be ASCII compatible (which means every byte that
  corresponds to an ASCII codepoint actually is an ASCII codepoint). This