GNU bug report logs - #19230
Help! grepV2.21 treats ISO-8859 text files as if they are binary

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Package: grep;

Reported by: Hans Pelleboer <hanspelleboer <at> online.nl>

Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 19:10:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 19985, 20526, 21558

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #14 received at 19230 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Hans Pelleboer <hanspelleboer <at> online.nl>, 19230 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#19230: Help! grepV2.21 treats ISO-8859 text files as if they
 are binary
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'.
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