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authortjr <tjr@FreeBSD.org>2004-06-24 15:57:56 +0000
committertjr <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.
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diff --git a/usr.bin/comm/comm.1 b/usr.bin/comm/comm.1
index 5c1f44b..6866986 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 .
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