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* man/tr.x: Document tr problem.
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[NAME]
tr \- translate or delete characters
[DESCRIPTION]
.\" Add any additional description here
[BUGS]
.PP
Full support is available only for safe single-byte locales,
in which every possible input byte represents a single character.
The C locale is safe in GNU systems, so you can avoid this issue
in the shell by running
.B "LC_ALL=C tr"
instead of plain
.BR tr .