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Morten Kjærulff wrote:
> Found this:
>   http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?18666
> could be related (or the actual error?)

  Bingo.  1.7 uses UTF8 by default.  1.5 doesn't use UTF8 at all.  On Cygwin
1.7, "grep -i <whatever>" works, but "LC_ALL=C.ASCII grep -i" fails.

    cheers,
      DaveK


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