grep 2.5 --color bug

[Brock, Don E]

I read an article at linux.com today about the new features in grep 2.5
so I played around with the --color option.  I discovered that the
--color option doesn't print the color escape codes (even with
--color=always) if any characters of the pattern being searched for are
in upper case and if the -i option is used.  This seems like a bug to
me.
 
Examples:
(searchfile contains "hello world")
 
# This prints the found pattern in color
grep -i --color=always 'hello world' searchfile
 
# This will NOT print the found pattern in color
grep -i --color=always 'Hello world' searchfile
 
Thanks,
Don Brock
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