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@node wcwidth
@section @code{wcwidth}
@findex wcwidth

POSIX specification: @url{http://www.opengroup.org/susv3xsh/wcwidth.html}

Gnulib module: wcwidth

Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
@item
This function is missing on some platforms:
IRIX 5.3, Solaris 2.5.1, mingw, BeOS.
@item
This function handles combining characters in UTF-8 locales incorrectly on some
platforms:
MacOS X 10.3.
@end itemize

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