findstr or grep that autodetects chararacter encoding (UTF-16)

Question

I want to do this:

 findstr /s /c:some-symbol *

or the grep equivalent

 grep -R some-symbol *

but I need

Answer 1

In higher versions of Windows, UTF-16 is supported out-of-box. If not, try changing active code page by chcp command.

In my case when using findstr alone was failing for UTF-16 files, however it worked with type:

type *.* | findstr /s /c:some-symbol