Subject: Re: bug#78439: Accent insensitive grep

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 15 May 2025 09:19:14 -0700

On 2025-05-14 22:49, Avid Seeker via Bug reports for GNU grep wrote:

> are equivalence classes the
> right tool to approach this?

They're supposed to be, yes ...

> I see that they depend on LC_COLLATE, in
> which case it would be possible to setup a custom locale that matches
> digraphs.

... though you're venturing into uncharted territory here. Please let us 
know of any monsters you find.

> Is there a way to setup a locale without having to recompile glibc

Yes, use localedef.