Alternatives: tcgrep

[n1vux]

https://metacpan.org/pod/Unicode::Tussle includes tcgrep, Tom Christianson's Unicode compliant grep in Perl, and other unicode utilities.
These are part of Tom's Perl Unicode Essentials talk from OSCON 2011
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tcgrep - very ancient grep(1) replacment, needs rewrite but now supports named character
(Found via blog https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2021/03/03/tcgrep/ )

(If we try to fix beyondgrep/ack3#336 with /aa , having Unicode alternatives would be good!)