bug#43225: closed (Grep treats extended Latin characters like whitespace)

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Grep treats extended Latin characters like whitespace Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2020 14:27:56 +0000

What I did:

```

grep -Riw cone *

'''

Expected result: lines with the word "cone" surrounded by whitespace, ignoring case.

What I got instead:

```

data/po/pt_BR.po:msgstr "Pressione o ícone de pódio para iniciar o tutorial"

'''

Why this is a bug: the word ícone is not the same as cone and should not have been returned in the result set. It appears that grep treats the í character in ícone as whitespace, which affects other extended-Latin characters as well.

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Re: bug#43225: Grep treats extended Latin characters like whitespace Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2020 12:45:11 -0700 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.10.0

On 9/5/20 7:27 AM, Mayo Fark wrote:

grep -Riw cone *
...
data/po/pt_BR.po:msgstr "Pressione o ícone de pódio para iniciar o tutorial"

Thanks for the bug report. This bug is due to an overenthusiastic optimization that I installed in late 2016. I installed the attached patch to fix the bug.

0001-grep-fix-w-bug-in-UTF-8-locales.patch
Description: Text Data

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