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authortjr <tjr@FreeBSD.org>2004-07-03 01:28:21 +0000
committertjr <tjr@FreeBSD.org>2004-07-03 01:28:21 +0000
commitc9e47db05797e63d421aaf60b14430e88eb0a1e8 (patch)
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parent067d8e4e13131fd04d356f87481195235adf701a (diff)
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Document missing multibyte character support in utilities specified
by POSIX.
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-rw-r--r--usr.bin/printf/printf.17
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/printf/printf.1 b/usr.bin/printf/printf.1
index 86b08b3..ea3cc22 100644
--- a/usr.bin/printf/printf.1
+++ b/usr.bin/printf/printf.1
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
.\" @(#)printf.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd June 6, 1993
+.Dd July 3, 2004
.Dt PRINTF 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -336,3 +336,8 @@ When present in the
the
.Ar format
will be truncated at the \e000 character.
+.Pp
+Multibyte characters are not recognized in format strings (this is only
+a problem if
+.Dq Li %
+can appear inside a multibyte character.)
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