Subject: Re: bug#19241: latest grep considers text files as binary
From: Jim Meyering <[email-masked]>
To: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Cc: Jim Meyering <[email-masked]>, [email-masked], [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2014 09:53:01 -0800
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 9:29 AM, Paul Eggert <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 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'.

tags 19241 notabug
close 19241
thanks

Thanks for the report, but as you've seen (thanks, Paul), this is due
to documented and desirable behavior.  The above marks this
auto-created issue as a non-bug in our tracker.