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authorTim J. Robbins <tjr@FreeBSD.org>2004-06-24 15:57:56 +0000
committerTim J. Robbins <tjr@FreeBSD.org>2004-06-24 15:57:56 +0000
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Document the fact that comm(1) does not recognize multibyte characters
in its input. Although doing so would require only trivial changes, it would be incompatible with the ordering used by sort(1), which is the primary source of comm's input.
Notes
Notes: svn path=/head/; revision=131057
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diff --git a/usr.bin/comm/comm.1 b/usr.bin/comm/comm.1
index 5c1f44b15bd4..68669864811e 100644
--- a/usr.bin/comm/comm.1
+++ b/usr.bin/comm/comm.1
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
.\" From: @(#)comm.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd June 6, 1993
+.Dd June 25, 2004
.Os
.Dt COMM 1
.Sh NAME
@@ -101,3 +101,9 @@ A
.Nm
command appeared in
.At v4 .
+.Sh BUGS
+The
+.Nm
+utility does not recognize multibyte characters in order to remain
+compatible with the current implementation of
+.Xr sort 1 .