Subject: bug#21604: grep doesn't match diacritical chars in ISO-8859 files

From: Santiago Ruano Rincón <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 11:43:58 +0200

Hi,

Moreover http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=19230 , several
debian users report that grep doesn't match characters with diacritical
marks in ISO-8859 files, inside a Unicode enviroment:

% file /tmp/q.h 
/tmp/q.h: ISO-8859 text

% grep c /tmp/q.h
Coincidencia en el fichero binario /tmp/q.h

% grep -a c /tmp/q.h
    struct cara* lcaras; //array de caras, habr� que usar reserva dinamica de memoria.

% grep á /tmp/q.h 

% grep -a á /tmp/q.h

grep matches the "á" pattern if it's is input from an ISO-8859 file:

% grep -f a q.h 
Coincidencia en el fichero binario q.h

Test files attached

Full report:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=800670

Regards,

Santiago

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers squeeze-lts
    APT policy: (500, 'squeeze-lts'), (500, 'oldoldstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental')
    Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
    Foreign Architectures: i386

    Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
    Locale: LANG=es_CO.utf8, LC_CTYPE=es_CO.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
    Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
    Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

    Versions of packages grep depends on:
    ii  dpkg          1.18.1
    ii  install-info  6.0.0.dfsg.1-3
    ii  libc6         2.19-19
    ii  libpcre3      2:8.35-7