grep/regex can't find accented word

Question

I\'m trying mount a regex that get some words on a file where all letters of this word match with a word pattern.

My problem is, the regex can\'t find accented words

Answer 1

If your file is encoded in ISO-8859-1 but your system locale is UTF-8, this will not work.

Either convert the file to UTF-8 or change your system locale to ISO-8859-1.

# convert from ISO-8859-1 to the environmental locale before grepping
# output will be in the current locale
$ iconv -f 8859_1 input/words.txt | grep ...

# run grep with an ISO-8859-1 locale
# output will be in ISO-8859-1 encoding
$ cat input/words.txt | env LC_ALL=en_US grep ...