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GNU grep mishandles \b near encoding errors

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: bug-grep <at> gnu.org
Subject: GNU grep mishandles \b near encoding errors
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2023 15:00:15 -0800

Here's a shell session illustrating the problem on Fedora 37, which has 
GNU grep 3.7. The same bug is still in bleeding-edge GNU grep.

  $ export LC_ALL=en_US.utf8
  $ printf '\300\n' | grep '\b'
  grep: (standard input): binary file matches
  $ printf '\300\n' | grep -P '\b'
  $

Plain grep finds a word boundary in the input even though the input 
contains no words (just an encoding error). 'grep -P' does the right thing.

The underlying issue is in the glibc regex code so the fix should be in 
glibc / Gnulib, but I thought I'd report it here before I forgot it.

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