Grep (and also Sed) cannot match a certain range of Korean characters when
it operates under LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (and whatever language environment with
UTF-8 encoding including en_US.UTF-8, ko_KR.UTF-8, or ja_JP.UTF-8 etc.)
Reproduce the bug:
$ export LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8
$ echo 폿 | grep .
폿 <-- a character that is in the range [가-폿]
(<UAC00>~<UD3FF>)
is matched without any issue
$ echo 퐀 | grep .
$ <-- but a character in the range [퐀-힣]
(<UD400>~<UD7A3>)
CANNOT be matched but it IS SUPPOSED TO be matched.
Sed has the same issue with the period regex too.
The Example of Sed:
$ export LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8
$ echo "폿" | sed -e 's/./a/'
a <-- matched and replaced without an issue
$ echo "퐀" | sed -e 's/./a/'
퐀 <-- FAILED to match so it doesn't replace
I think it is related to <regex.h> or <iconv.h> on Glibc, but I couldn't
find a way to reproduce the bug with those, so alternatively, I report on
Grep instead.
P. S. For some reason, I think my email address (not this) was rejected by
the server, and I don't know why. So I post it again using a Gmail account
instead.
