Subject: bug#19241: latest grep considers text files as binary

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 09:29:15 -0800

On 12/01/2014 09:05 AM, Thomas Wolff wrote:
> the mentioned patches are apparently intended to fix
> issues in non-UTF-8 locales.

No, they're also needed for UTF-8 locales I'm afraid.  There are some 
security issues, not only having to do with grep's internals, but also 
for the behavior of downstream programs that may be expecting UTF-8 text.

You can work around the problem with 'grep -a'.