id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	blockedby	blocking	branch_state	votes
3695	Hex search fails to find binary data	mooffie		"In the common situation where the user uses a UTF-8 terminal and default encoding, ""Hexadecimal"" search fails to find data in binary files.

That's because the regexp is created in UTF-8 mode (!G_REGEX_RAW) but the binary data is invalid UTF-8 sequence.

It's relatively easy to fix this, but I'll have to wait till #3694 gets committed (as it fixes quoted strings in hex patterns, which may be a game changer).

(BTW, in the [https://mail.gnome.org/archives/mc/2016-September/msg00018.html mailing list] I instructed a user to tick the ""All charsets"" checkbox to work around this bug. The checkbox causes additional regexps to be created not in UTF-8 mode (that is, G_REGEX_RAW) -- it's the 1st of these extra regexps that's actually going to find the data.)"	defect	closed	minor		mc-search	master	duplicate					no branch