GNU bug report logs - #28255
grep erroneously skips Microsoft UTF-8 text files as being binary

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Package: grep;

Reported by: Simon <ixlr82c <at> teksavvy.com>

Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2017 21:24:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Simon <ixlr82c <at> teksavvy.com>
To: 28255 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#28255: grep erroneously skips Microsoft UTF-8 text files as being binary
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2017 17:13:34 -0400

Windows text files can start with a byte order mark of U+FEFF and then
be encoded in UTF-8.  These are skipped as being binary files.
This bug report was last modified 5 years and 140 days ago.

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