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 #83 received at 20526 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Norihiro Tanaka <noritnk <at> kcn.ne.jp>
To: eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu
Cc: sebastian.poehn <at> gmail.com, 20526 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20526: grep BUG: text file is detected as binary
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2016 00:23:11 +0900

On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 19:25:04 -0800
Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu> wrote:

> I installed into Savannah a patch (attached) that should fix this
> problem in typical cases, and am boldly marking the bug as done.
> Please give the fix a try if you have the time. Thanks.

I get following output after apply the patch.  Is it expected?

$ printf 'a\na\377\na\n' | LANG=en_US.utf8 src/grep a
a
Binary file (standard input) matches
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