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@node wcpncpy
@section @code{wcpncpy}
@findex wcpncpy

POSIX specification:@* @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/wcpncpy.html}

Gnulib module: wcpncpy

Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
@item
This function is missing on some platforms:
MacOS X 10.5, FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 5.0, OpenBSD 3.8, AIX 4.3.2, HP-UX 11,
IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 10, Cygwin 1.5.x, mingw, Interix 3.5, BeOS.
@item
This function is not declared (without @code{-D_GNU_SOURCE}) on some platforms:
glibc 2.13.
@end itemize

Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
@item
On AIX and Windows platforms, @code{wchar_t} is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
accommodate all Unicode characters.
@end itemize