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| author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2001-04-13 20:33:32 +0000 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2001-04-13 20:33:32 +0000 |
| commit | 21049673a0407784ebe9c4587ac427773cc83187 (patch) | |
| tree | d9275d0e4a1aad2757f35595f2195529a6c85762 /src/sort.c | |
| parent | 3de0ead1eff361958ba3b2ee2ec3ba11ffd8bee3 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-21049673a0407784ebe9c4587ac427773cc83187.tar.xz | |
(main): Add a comment justifying the use of
`multi-character' rather than `multibyte' in a diagnostic.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/sort.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/sort.c | 5 |
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; |