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latest grep considers text files as binary

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19241: closed (latest grep considers text files as binary)
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 17:54:02 +0000

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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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From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Jim Meyering <meyering <at> fb.com>, towo <at> computer.org,
 19241-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#19241: latest grep considers text files as binary
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2014 09:53:01 -0800

On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 9:29 AM, Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> 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'.

tags 19241 notabug
close 19241
thanks

Thanks for the report, but as you've seen (thanks, Paul), this is due
to documented and desirable behavior.  The above marks this
auto-created issue as a non-bug in our tracker.

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