Comment 25 for bug 1547466
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| teo1978 (teo8976) wrote Re: grep switches into binary mode while processing a text file | #25 |
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(Get the code!)
> This has been the case for a long time.
Nope. Just a few months.
> If you try to show non-UTF-8
> data in an UTF-8 locale you'll just see garbage (or other encoding
> mismatches)
That doesn't mean that the file should be processed as binary. Also, previous to the regression, grep would work as expected. I guess it might fail to find matches of non-ascii characters encoded in a non-utf8 encoding (though I don't see why it couldn't decode each file according to its encoding and match the contents unicode-wise), but when grepping for "foo" it would find matches for the string "foo" both in utf8-encoded files and in iso8859-encoded files.
> This bug is about switching to binary mode in the 'C' locale only.
Then I wonder why somebody marked the one I reported as duplicate of this one