Subject: Re: latest grep considers text files as binary
From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
To: Thomas Wolff <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 09:29:15 -0800
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

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'.