El 02/10/15 a las 13:01, Paul Eggert escribió: > On 10/02/2015 02:43 AM, Santiago Ruano Rincón wrote: > >grep doesn't match characters with diacritical > >marks in ISO-8859 files, inside a Unicode enviroment > > That is normal and expected behavior. In a UTF-8 locale, "á" is represented > by the two bytes 0xC3 and 0xA1. In an ISO-8859 file, the same character is > represented by the single byte 0xE1. The UTF-8 pattern won't match the > ISO-8859 representation. > > To avoid this problem, switch to an ISO-8859 locale before using grep to > read ISO-8859 text files. This is true for pretty much any standard > utility, not just grep. Alternatively, you can translate the text files > from ISO-8859 to UTF-8, before giving the resulting text to grep or to other > utilities.
Last changes also fix this: With 2.24: % printf 'á' | LC_ALL=C grep . Binary file (standard input) matches Whit 2.24.13-bed6 pre-release % printf 'á' | LC_ALL=C grep á á Thanks, Santiago
