Your bug report #18454: Improve performance when -P (PCRE) is used in UTF-8 locales which was filed against the grep package, has been closed. The explanation is attached below, along with your original report. If you require more details, please reply to 18454@debbugs.gnu.org. -- 18454: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=18454 GNU Bug Tracking System Contact help-debbugs@gnu.org with problems