Bug#586134: texi2dvi: improper call to grep

[Hilmar Preuße <hille42@web.de>]

On 16.06.10 Stéphane Glondu (steph@glondu.net) wrote:

Hi,

> texi2dvi calls grep this way (when called on a trivial file, such as
> the one attached):
> 
>   egrep '^(/|[A-z]:/)'
> 
> Which results in a "egrep: Fin d'intervalle invalide" error in French
> locale.
> 
hille@drachi:~$ egrep '^(/|[A-z]:/)' a.tex 
hille@drachi:~$
hille@drachi:~$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
<etc.>

Is this problem limited to the French locale? Do you eventually have
a solution, perhap setting the locale to POSIX before running this
command?

H.
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