From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/417.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/417.8 Description of problem: grep -w appears not to work for any non-UTF-8 multibyte locale; matches are often not reported when they should be. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): grep-2.5.1-48.2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: echo za a | LANG=ja_JP.eucjp grep -w a Actual Results: No output. Expected Results: Output: "za a". Additional info: The command gives the expected output on FC3.
Thanks for the report. Corrections: * this is for non-UTF-8 multibyte locales. UTF-8 input works correctly. * FC-3 gives the same output for me (grep-2.5.1-31.4).
Created attachment 124869 [details] Potential fix for grep -w problem This is a potential fix for the grep -w problem in non-UTF-8 multibyte locales. It attempts to correctly locate the multibyte character preceeding the matched string by (slowly) scanning forward from the start of the buffer until it reaches the match position. Using "last_char" instead of performing this search seems to be incorrect.
Thanks! Fixed in grep-2.5.1-53.