GNU bug report logs - #18266
grep -P and invalid exits with error

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Package: grep;

Reported by: Santiago <santiago <at> debian.org>

Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 15:43:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Merged with 18455

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #158 received at 18266 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Vincent Lefevre <vincent <at> vinc17.net>
Cc: 18266 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 758105 <at> bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: bug#18266: handling bytes not part of the charset, and other
 garbage
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 19:11:08 -0700

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
Come to think of it, grep -P misbehaves badly in multibyte locales that 
are not UTF-8.  It should report an error and exit rather than output 
gibberish.  I installed the attached patch to catch that.


[0001-grep-diagnose-P-in-non-UTF-8-multibyte-locale.patch (text/plain, attachment)]
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