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bug#19230: Help! grepV2.21 treats ISO-8859 text files as if they are bin
From: |
Bob Proulx |
Subject: |
bug#19230: Help! grepV2.21 treats ISO-8859 text files as if they are binary |
Date: |
Mon, 1 Dec 2014 12:45:14 -0700 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) |
Hans Pelleboer wrote:
> Paul Eggert wrote:
> >Hans Pelleboer wrote:
> > > I was wondering what can be done to compile grep in such a way,
> > > that it processes all text files, no matter what way they are encoded.
> >
> >You don't need to recompile; you can just use 'grep -a'.
>
> I was referring to the default behaviour, as it used to be, without extra
> flags
I apologize for having no time to check myself. What is the behavior
if you set the locale back to C/POSIX for grep?
env LC_ALL=C grep someencodedfile
Bob