bug#23844: broken: randomly detexts textf files as binary

2016-06-25 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi php fan, On Sat, 25 Jun 2016 00:09:09 +0200 php fan wrote: > What is the status of this bug?? > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grep/+bug/1535458 > I think I ran into a similar problem when trying to search through HexChat logs. Anyway, in the meanwhile, you

bug#23844: broken: randomly detexts textf files as binary

2016-06-25 Thread Paul Eggert
On 06/25/2016 12:09 AM, php fan wrote: What is the status of this bug?? https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grep/+bug/1535458 You can use either 'grep -a FOO' or 'LC_ALL=C grep FOO' to search through arbitrarily encoded files. You may get a 'binary files' message if your locale