(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 4cbb835..7f78765 100644 (file)
--- 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;