GNU bug report logs - #20526
BUG: text file is detected as binary

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Package: grep;

Reported by: Sebastian Poehn <sebastian.poehn <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 7 May 2015 15:41:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 19230, 19985, 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 submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Johannes Meixner <jsmeix <at> suse.de>
To: Sebastian Poehn <sebastian.poehn <at> gmail.com>
Cc: bug-grep <at> gnu.org, 20526 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20526: BUG: text file is detected as binary
Date: Fri, 8 May 2015 09:29:11 +0200 (CEST)

Hello,

only an addendum FYI:

On May 7 09:23 Paul Eggert wrote (excerpt):
> That file uses ISO 8859 encoding (presumably Latin-1 or Latin-9),
> so you need to grep it in a locale compatible with that encoding.

For some general information about that kind of issue have a look at
https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Plain_Text_versus_Locale


Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
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