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-rw-r--r--usr.bin/wc/wc.12
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/wc/wc.1 b/usr.bin/wc/wc.1
index 2c09e02ecac3..eeaaa74dbd9d 100644
--- a/usr.bin/wc/wc.1
+++ b/usr.bin/wc/wc.1
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ characters delimited by <space>, <tab> or <newline> characters
.Dc .
The implementation, however, did not handle non-printing characters
correctly so that
-.Dq Li " ^D^E "
+.Dq Li "\ \ ^D^E\ \ "
counted as 6 spaces, while
.Dq Li foo^D^Ebar
counted as 8 characters.