GNU bug report logs - #60618
unicode characters are not identified as such for \w and \b with -P

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Package: grep;

Reported by: Carlo Arenas <carenas <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2023 03:49:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 60621

Done: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #18 received at 60618-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Carlo Arenas <carenas <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 60618-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#60618: unicode characters are not identified as such for \w
 and \b with -P
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2023 18:28:49 -0800
On Fri, Jan 6, 2023 at 11:37 PM Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 6, 2023 at 11:28 PM Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 6, 2023 at 7:49 PM Carlo Arenas <carenas <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Reported to PCRE[1] with mention of GNU grep being also affected.
> > >
> > > [1] https://github.com/PCRE2Project/pcre2/issues/185
> >
> > Yikes. This is a big deal.
> > Thank you for the patch and added test.

I've also added the new names to THANKS.in and pushed this:
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git/commit/?id=5e3b760f65f13856e5717e5b9d935f5b4a615be3




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