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grep erroneously skips Microsoft UTF-8 text files as being binary

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Message #8 received at 28255 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Simon <ixlr82c <at> teksavvy.com>, 28255 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#28255: grep erroneously skips Microsoft UTF-8 text files as
 being binary
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2017 14:47:28 -0700

Simon wrote:
> 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.

I can't reproduce this problem on Fedora 26 x86-64. Here's how I tried:

$ printf '\357\273\277x\n' >t
$ LC_ALL=C grep x t | od -c
0000000 357 273 277   x  \n
0000005

To help us diagnose the problem, please send a simple, self-contained example, 
and mention your platform.

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