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

On Windows, you can also use find.exe.

find /i /n "YourSearchString" *.*

The only problem is this prints file names followed by matches. You may filter them by piping to findstr

find /i /n "YourSearchString" *.* | findstr /i "YourSearchString"