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| From: | Paul Eggert |
| Subject: | bug#19241: latest grep considers text files as binary |
| Date: | Mon, 01 Dec 2014 09:29:15 -0800 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0 |
On 12/01/2014 09:05 AM, Thomas Wolff wrote:
the mentioned patches are apparently intended to fix issues in non-UTF-8 locales.
No, they're also needed for UTF-8 locales I'm afraid. There are some security issues, not only having to do with grep's internals, but also for the behavior of downstream programs that may be expecting UTF-8 text.
You can work around the problem with 'grep -a'.
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