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| From: | Paul Eggert |
| Subject: | bug#30643: Mention . won't match illegal characters |
| Date: | Tue, 22 Sep 2020 11:57:02 -0700 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.10.0 |
$ man grep says
The period . matches any single character.
OK but it should also mention that illegal characters for the current
locale will never be matched by ".".
This has been done, by adding "It is unspecified whether it matches an encoding error" as part of a fix for Bug#30643. Thanks for reporting the problem.
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