bug#23844: broken: randomly detexts textf files as binary

[Paul Eggert]

On 06/25/2016 12:09 AM, php fan wrote:
> What is the status of this bug??
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grep/+bug/1535458

You can use either 'grep -a FOO' or 'LC_ALL=C grep FOO' to search 
through arbitrarily encoded files. You may get a 'binary files' message 
if your locale specifies some other encoding (e.g., UTF-8) and if grep 
would otherwise output a line with an encoding error, but that's not a 
bad thing to do, as encoding errors are not text.