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

From: Norihiro Tanaka <noritnk <at> kcn.ne.jp>
To: Paul Eggert <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: Sat, 02 Jan 2016 06:39:03 +0900

On Thu, 31 Dec 2015 10:04:06 -0800
Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu> wrote:

> Yes, it's expected.  Thanks, this should be stated more clearly, so I installed the attached documentation patch.

Thanks.

By the way, why this check is applied in only multi-byte locale?  e.g.
if \200 is included in en_US.iso88591 which is not POSIX locale, I think
grep may need to return `Binary file ... matches', as mbrlen(3) returns
-1 for \200.
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