Bug#387704: grep: -i breaks \W in some locales (perhaps UTF-8 locales only)

forwarded 387704 bug-g...@gnu.org thanks On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 11:14:07AM -0500, Ruben Molina wrote: On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 10:35:26AM +0200, Christoph Biedl wrote: Package: grep Version: 2.5.1.ds2-5 Severity: normal I noticed that enabling --ignore-case suddenly caused certain patterns not

Bug#387704: grep: -i breaks \W in some locales (perhaps UTF-8 locales only)

Package: grep Version: 2.5.1.ds2-5 Severity: normal I noticed that enabling --ignore-case suddenly caused certain patterns not to match any longer although they should: $ echo 'foo bar' | grep'^foo\W' foo bar $ echo 'foo bar' | grep -i '^foo\W' $ Digging further reveals that there's an