[debbugs-tracker] bug#19230: closed (Help! grepV2.21 treats ISO-8859 text files as if they are binary)

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> Help! grepV2.21 treats ISO-8859 text files as if they are binary
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> Sun, 30 Nov 2014 14:40:31 +0100
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> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0
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> Hello,
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> After upgrading to V2.21 I discovered that certain textfiles did not
> yield any output after a grep search but the single line:
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> Binary file <NAME_FILE> matches
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> 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.
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> The only way to overcome this was by using the `roughshod' option
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> None of grep's versions that I have used before ever showed
> this peculiarity.
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> I hope you can shed some light on this issue,
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> hansp
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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Re: grep BUG: text file is detected as binary Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 19:25:04 -0800 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.4.0 I installed into Savannah a patch (attached) that should fix this problem in typical cases, and am boldly marking the bug as done. Please give the fix a try if you have the time. Thanks.

0001-grep-be-less-picky-about-encoding-errors.patch
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