Brian, did you set a non-UTF language?

apt-cache policy grep
grep:
  Installed: 2.23-1
  Candidate: 2.23-1
  Version table:
 *** 2.23-1 500
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

LANG=C grep -v xxx grant_table.h
...
 * table are identified by grant references. A grant reference is an
 * integer, which indexes into the grant table. It acts as a
 * capability which the grantee can use to perform operations on the
Binary file grant_table.h matches

** Changed in: grep (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => New

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  grep switches into binary mode while processing a text file

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