bug#30643: closed (Mention . won't match illegal characters)

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Your message dated Tue, 22 Sep 2020 11:57:02 -0700
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and subject line Mention . won't match illegal characters
has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #30643,
regarding Mention . won't match illegal characters
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> Mention . won't match illegal characters
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> Wed, 28 Feb 2018 14:30:24 +0800
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> $ man grep says
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>        The period . matches any single character.
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> OK but it should also mention that illegal characters for the current
> locale will never be matched by ".".
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> $ LC_ALL=C           grep  .東看 x.html|qprint -e
>           <p>=E5?=91=E6=9D=B1=E7=9C=8B</p>
> $ LC_ALL=zh_TW.UTF-8 grep  .東看 x.html|qprint -e
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> Also mention it on (info "(grep) Fundamental Structure").
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> Tue, 22 Sep 2020 11:57:02 -0700
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> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.10.0
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> > $ man grep says
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> >        The period . matches any single character.
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> > OK but it should also mention that illegal characters for the current
> > locale will never be matched by ".".
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> This has been done, by adding "It is unspecified whether it matches an encoding 
> error" as part of a fix for Bug#30643. Thanks for reporting the problem.
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