[Bug 241635] tr(1) produces ridiculous error message

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            Bug ID: 241635
           Summary: tr(1) produces ridiculous error message
           Product: Base System
           Version: 12.0-RELEASE
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Some People
          Priority: ---
         Component: bin
          Assignee: bugs at FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: rfg-freebsd at tristatelogic.com

The tr(1) command can sometimes produce the following error message:

tr: Illegal byte sequence

Perhaps rms is not the best person to be quoting anymore thes days, but I
clearly remember, back in the day, he used to always poke fun at this kind of
silly error message.

"Illegal" ???  Will I be taken to jail now?

Gosh I hope not.

If I am going to be busted and taken to jail, I would prefer that it be for
some REALLY henious crime... not for merely passing an "illegal" byte sequence
into the tr utility.

Somebody should fix the message so that it ain't so silly.

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