GNU bug report logs - #19241
latest grep considers text files as binary

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Package: grep;

Reported by: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2014 17:30:04 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Thomas Wolff <towo <at> computer.org>, bug-grep <at> gnu.org
Cc: meyering <at> fb.com, noritnk <at> kcn.ne.jp
Subject: Re: latest grep considers text files as binary
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'.
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