Paul Eggert wrote:
$ printf '\200\n' | LC_ALL=C grep .
Binary file (standard input) matches
This is because the C locale is pure ASCII on these platforms, i.e.,
'\200' is not a valid character the way it is with traditional Unix. I
don't know why Red Hat made that change.
I also get the 'Binary file (standard input) matches' output from the
above string on a Linux From Scratch system. We build everything in a
fairly generic way and did nothing special in this area. I suspect this
is something buried deep into glibc.
-- Bruce
