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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;