On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 9:29 AM, Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> wrote: > On 12/01/2014 09:05 AM, Thomas Wolff wrote: >> >> the mentioned patches are apparently intended to fix >> issues in non-UTF-8 locales. > > > No, they're also needed for UTF-8 locales I'm afraid. There are some > security issues, not only having to do with grep's internals, but also for > the behavior of downstream programs that may be expecting UTF-8 text. > > You can work around the problem with 'grep -a'.
tags 19241 notabug close 19241 thanks Thanks for the report, but as you've seen (thanks, Paul), this is due to documented and desirable behavior. The above marks this auto-created issue as a non-bug in our tracker.
