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 #95 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: Sun, 03 Jan 2016 10:32:06 +0900

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
On Fri, 1 Jan 2016 21:22:54 -0800
Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu> wrote:

> 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.

Thanks, I see that it is good idea, but I propose minor change for your
fix.  Perhaps, it will be what you want.


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