Re: GNU grep in /usr/bin? WTF?!

[Adam Hoka <adam.hoka%gmail.com@localhost>]

Greg A. Woods; Planix, Inc. wrote:
> On 12-Oct-08, at 1:19 PM, Aleksey Cheusov wrote:
> > libc's regexp doesn't support UTF-8 and therefore usr.bin/grep will
> > not too.
>
> I'd strongly suggest that's actually more of an incentive to move to a 
> BSD grep.  (primarily because it would mean grep/egrep would then 
> conform to the standard libc regexp implementation since obviously it 
> doesn't do so now)
>
> It's also an incentive to improve (eg. add UTF-8 support to) the base 
> regexp code too, if that's deemed desirable and possible to do without 
> causing major confusion and bloat.

I've been playing with the textproc tools ported from openbsd to freebsd
during this year's SoC:
http://trac-hg.assembla.com/bsdtextproc/browser

They look quite usable, or at least a good start.