Subject: bug#19230: Help! grepV2.21 treats ISO-8859 text files as if they are binary

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 10:52:33 -0800

On 11/30/2014 11:57 PM, 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'.