Subject: sed no longer removes high-ascii characters as it did formerly.
From: Brian Tew <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2015 06:21:41 -0600
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Well, sometimes it do and sometimes it don't.

Script started on Fri 25 Dec 2015 05:53:04 AM CS
~$ed sample
50
l
subject now that thanksgiving has come and gone\342\246$
q
~$
~$sed -i 's/[^a-z 0-9]//g' sample
~$ed sample
50
l
subject now that thanksgiving has come and gone\342\246$
q
~$
~$un[Ksed --version
sed (GNU sed) 4.2.2
Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Jay Fenlason, Tom Lord, Ken Pizzini,
and Paolo Bonzini.
GNU sed home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/sed/>.
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>.
E-mail bug reports to: <[email-masked]>.
Be sure to include the word ``sed'' somewhere in the ``Subject:'' field.
~$exit

Script done on Fri 25 Dec 2015 05:59:12 AM CS