i don't think that sort of absolutist thinking really works.
i used gnu grep (and all the other gnu tools) on utf-8 stuff 
from the time of the first sam release for unix till i stopped using 
linux for much development.  i never had a problem with
g(ed|sed|awk|e?grep) tripping on utf-8 when the local was
unset or "C".  i did keep in mind that . wasn't going to match
"☺", though.

we all know the limitations of our tools.  that doesn't make
them broken.  

just because plan 9 does bad things if you exceed NPROCS,
doesn't make it broken.

- erik

On 2/23/07, erik quanstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>         ; egrep '[��]0' fu
>         ; egrep '^.0' fu
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