grep fails with the error "grep: -P supports only unibyte and UTF-8 locales" ?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Why does grep -P fail with the following error?

    grep: -P supports only unibyte and UTF-8 locales

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • grep

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