(main): Add a comment justifying the use of

`multi-character' rather than `multibyte' in a diagnostic.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/sort.c b/src/sort.c
index 4cbb83509..7f7876537 100644
--- a/src/sort.c
+++ b/src/sort.c
@@ -2394,7 +2394,10 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
 	  tab = optarg[0];
 	  if (tab && optarg[1])
 	    {
-	      /* Provoke with `sort -txx'.  */
+	      /* Provoke with `sort -txx'.  Complain about
+		 "multi-character tab" instead of "multibyte tab", so
+		 that the diagnostic's wording does not need to be
+		 changed once multibyte characters are supported.  */
 	      error (SORT_FAILURE, 0, _("multi-character tab `%s'"), optarg);
 	    }
 	  break;