From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 08:41:18 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (Character sets): Don't say that an unknown
X-Git-Tag: v6.0~737
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=398c7ab669b6a0041f286924fbf20708212e60be;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

(Character sets): Don't say that an unknown
backslash-escape causes an error message -- it doesn't.
---

diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index fa51b34111..6238876ea8 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -4934,8 +4934,8 @@ used only in @var{set1} or @var{set2}, as noted below.
 @item Backslash escapes
 @cindex backslash escapes
 
-A backslash followed by a character not listed below causes an error
-message.
+A backslash followed by a character not listed below is interpreted
+as that character.
 
 @table @samp
 @item \a