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Subject:	Re: bug#19230: Help! grepV2.21 treats ISO-8859 text files as if they are binary
Date:	Mon, 01 Dec 2014 20:50:07 +0100
From:	Hans Pelleboer <hanspelleboer@online.nl>
To:	Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com>

On 12/01/2014 08:45 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
> 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
Then everything is hunky dory as it used to be with V2.20 and before 
(since 1986 in my case!).
Hans