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authorTim J. Robbins <tjr@FreeBSD.org>2004-07-03 01:28:21 +0000
committerTim J. Robbins <tjr@FreeBSD.org>2004-07-03 01:28:21 +0000
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Document missing multibyte character support in utilities specified
by POSIX.
Notes
Notes: svn path=/head/; revision=131511
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diff --git a/usr.bin/printf/printf.1 b/usr.bin/printf/printf.1
index 86b08b382e83..ea3cc22e2d00 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.)