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authorRichard Maw <richard.maw@codethink.co.uk>2012-01-17 14:43:55 +0000
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+@node wcwidth
+@section @code{wcwidth}
+@findex wcwidth
+
+POSIX specification:@* @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/wcwidth.html}
+
+Gnulib module: wcwidth
+
+Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
+@itemize
+@item
+This function is missing on some platforms:
+Minix 3.1.8, IRIX 5.3, Solaris 2.5.1, mingw, MSVC 9, BeOS.
+@item
+This function is not declared (without @code{-D_GNU_SOURCE}) on some platforms:
+glibc 2.8.
+@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 AIX and Windows platforms, @code{wchar_t} is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
+accommodate all Unicode characters.
+@end itemize