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bug#19230: Help! grepV2.21 treats ISO-8859 text files as if they are bin
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Hans Pelleboer |
Subject: |
bug#19230: Help! grepV2.21 treats ISO-8859 text files as if they are binary |
Date: |
Sun, 30 Nov 2014 14:40:31 +0100 |
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Hello,
After upgrading to V2.21 I discovered that certain textfiles did not
yield any output after a grep search but the single line:
Binary file <NAME_FILE> matches
Further tests showed, that grep only behaved this way with text
files that were encoded according to ISO-8859 (There may be more!).
The presence or absence of diacritical characters didn't matter, nor
variants of formatting; another file with DOS type <CR><LF>'s parsed
just the same.
The only way to overcome this was by using the `roughshod' option
of the -a flag.
None of grep's versions that I have used before ever showed
this peculiarity.
I hope you can shed some light on this issue,
hansp
- bug#19230: Help! grepV2.21 treats ISO-8859 text files as if they are binary,
Hans Pelleboer <=