From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 20:33:32 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (main): Add a comment justifying the use of
X-Git-Tag: FILEUTILS-4_0_44~23
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb/index.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=21049673a0407784ebe9c4587ac427773cc83187;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

(main): Add a comment justifying the use of
`multi-character' rather than `multibyte' in a diagnostic.
---

diff --git a/src/sort.c b/src/sort.c
index 4cbb835096..7f78765379 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;