Package: grep Version: 2.6.3-1 Severity: grave As this issue might affact a lot of cases where grep is used, I've decided to file it with the severity grave.
Since version 2.6.3 (and it seems also 2.5.2 was affected), the behaviour of grep regarding capital letters in bracket expressions changed when using UTF8: With grep 2.6.3: b...@think ~% LANG=en_US.UTF-8 grep -E '^[A-Z]' /etc/passwd | wc -l 51 b...@think ~% LANG=C grep -E '^[A-Z]' /etc/passwd Debian-exim:x:100:103::/var/spool/exim4:/bin/false b...@think ~% LANG=de_DE.iso8859-15 grep -E '^[A-Z]' /etc/passwd Debian-exim:x:100:103::/var/spool/exim4:/bin/false With grep 2.5.4-4: b...@think ~% LANG=en_US.UTF-8 grep -E '^[A-Z]' /etc/passwd Debian-exim:x:100:103::/var/spool/exim4:/bin/false b...@think ~% LANG=C grep -E '^[A-Z]' /etc/passwd Debian-exim:x:100:103::/var/spool/exim4:/bin/false b...@think ~% LANG=de_DE.iso8859-15 grep -E '^[A-Z]' /etc/passwd Debian-exim:x:100:103::/var/spool/exim4:/bin/false This behaviour change is not expected and different from what other implementations do. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.33-think (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages grep depends on: ii dpkg 1.15.5.6 Debian package management system ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-5 Manage installed documentation in ii libc6 2.10.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib grep recommends no packages. Versions of packages grep suggests: ii libpcre3 7.8-3 Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
