> 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

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