1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/bsgrep b/bsgrep
index 26f247e..d4ef311 100755
--- a/bsgrep
+++ b/bsgrep
@@ -73,6 +73,15 @@ sub handle_line {
 }
 
 ### main()
+# TODO: do we need 'use locale'?
+# also, why does reading iso-8859-1 text auto-convert to utf-8?
+for (qw/LANG LC_CTYPE LC_ALL/) {
+	if(($ENV{$_} // "") =~ /utf-?8/i) {
+		binmode(\*STDIN, ':utf8');
+		binmode(\*STDOUT, ':utf8');
+		last;
+	}
+}
 
 if(defined($ARGV[0])) {
   	if($ARGV[0] =~ /-help/) {