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This 'feature' is especially irritating when one uses grep on some text files with legacy (non UTF-8) encoding, but has locale with UTF-8 encoding. The grep dec

This 'feature' is especially irritating when one uses grep on some text files with legacy (non UTF-8) encoding, but has locale with UTF-8 encoding. The grep decides that regular text file is binary just because there are byte sequences that are not valid UTF-8 sequences.

_ZeD_ 7y ago
How... How can grep possibly work on a strange non-utf8 encoding if you don't say to it?
- twic 7y ago
  If you're grepping for ASCII strings, then the UTF-8 pattern will match the Latin-1 file.
  - _ZeD_ 7y ago
    how can you expect to find ASCII strings in the parent's "text files with legacy (non UTF-8) encoding"?
    - twic 7y ago
      Because some of them, like Latin-1, which i mentioned in the comment to which you replied, are supersets of ASCII.