Package: grep Version: 2.5.1.ds2-6 On my amd64 debian box using locale fi_FI.UTF-8 (all LC_XXX variables set to fi_FI.UTF-8 as well as LANG) grep fails to handle character ranges correctly. For example, the first grep is wrong but the second works correctly: $ echo "w" | grep "[a-z]" $ echo "a" | grep "[a-z]" a
I've gone through all the letters from a to z, and only the letters v and w break grep as above! Another user reported that this breakeage does not happen on his 32-bit Debian with grep 2.5.1.ds2-4, but it does happen on Debian Lenny 64-bit using grep 2.5.1.ds2-6. Yet another user reported that he cannot reproduce the problem on a 32-bit system using grep 2.5.1.ds2-6. Changing locale to C or en_US solves the problem: $ echo "w" | LC_ALL=C grep "[a-z]" w $ echo "w" | LC_ALL=en_US grep "[a-z]" w UTF-8 does not seem to matter: $ echo "w" | LC_ALL=fi_FI grep "[a-z]" gives nothing (I have locales fi_FI.UTF-8, fi_FI and en_US generated). My system: - custom kernel 2.6.22.1 - libc6 2.6.1-1 - Debian Lenny/Sid/Experimental amd64
