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

From: Hans Pelleboer <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 19:54:13 +0100

On 12/01/2014 07:52 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> 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'.
I was referring to the default behaviour, as it used to be, without 
extra flags