gnu/67987: grep needs to be updated

[Andrey Chernov]

The following reply was made to PR gnu/67987; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Andrey Chernov <ache at nagual.pp.ru>
To: Kim Scarborough <sluggo at unknown.nu>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: gnu/67987: grep needs to be updated
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 03:11:17 +0400

 On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 04:17:17PM -0500, Kim Scarborough wrote:
 > Can grep(1) be upgraded? The current version is 2.5.1. 2.4d is quite old...
 
 Despite vestiges of multibyte support, 2.5 is poorly localized for single 
 char locales. Better wait until they complete localization (mainly, in 
 regex code). BTW, -current have 2.4.2.
 
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