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Document the fact that comm(1) does not recognize multibyte characters
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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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Tim J. Robbins authored and Tim J. Robbins committed Jun 24, 2004
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.\" From: @(#)comm.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
.Dd June 6, 1993
.Dd June 25, 2004
.Os
.Dt COMM 1
.Sh NAME
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.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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