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

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Norihiro Tanaka <noritnk <at> kcn.ne.jp>
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, 1 Jan 2016 21:22:54 -0800

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
Norihiro Tanaka wrote:
> why this check is applied in only multi-byte locale?

Ouch, good point. I missed the possibility of a unibyte encoding where not all 
bytes are valid unibyte characters. I installed the attached additional patch to 
fix this, and to test for the bug I recently introduced here.

[0001-grep-fix-bug-with-with-invalid-unibyte-sequence.txt (text/plain, attachment)]
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