bug#38223: grep >=2.28 cannot handle -wF correctly under LANG=ja_JP.eucjp

[Jim Meyering]

On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 10:55 AM Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 8:28 AM Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Thanks for fixing that. Although the patch says "[Bug#38223 introduced in 
> > grep
> > 3.0]", the original bug report is against grep 2.28 and later. Can I take it
> > that we tried to fix the bug in 3.0 but the fix was incomplete?
>
> Thanks for noting that. I confirm that 2.10 through 2.27 are fine, and
> that this does afflict 2.28, but see it affected no other release
> until 3.0. Probably deserves more investigation.
>
> $ for i in grep-*; do echo $i: $(echo ab | LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.eucjp
> $i/bin/grep -Fw b); done|sed 's,.*-,,'

I've corrected NEWS.
Thanks!