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

From: Bob Proulx <bob <at> proulx.com>
To: Hans Pelleboer <hanspelleboer <at> online.nl>
Cc: 19230 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#19230: Help! grepV2.21 treats ISO-8859 text files as if they
 are binary
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2014 12:45:14 -0700

Hans Pelleboer wrote:
> Paul Eggert wrote:
> >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

I apologize for having no time to check myself.  What is the behavior
if you set the locale back to C/POSIX for grep?

  env LC_ALL=C grep someencodedfile

Bob
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