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'.
