GNU bug report logs - #43225
Grep treats extended Latin characters like whitespace

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Package: grep;

Reported by: Mayo Fark <mayofark <at> outlook.com>

Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2020 16:06:02 UTC

Severity: normal

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

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From: Mayo Fark <mayofark <at> outlook.com>
To: 43225 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#43225: Grep treats extended Latin characters like whitespace
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2020 14:27:56 +0000

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What I did:
```
grep -Riw cone *
'''

Expected result: lines with the word "cone" surrounded by whitespace, ignoring case.

What I got instead:
```
data/po/pt_BR.po:msgstr "Pressione o ícone de pódio para iniciar o tutorial"
'''

Why this is a bug: the word ícone is not the same as cone and should not have been returned in the result set. It appears that grep treats the í character in ícone as whitespace, which affects other extended-Latin characters as well.



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