kc3-lang/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/mbtowc.texi

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  doc: Mention an open glibc bug.
  
  * doc/posix-functions/mbrtowc.texi: Mention the possible out-of-range
  wchar_t values returned by this function on glibc.
  * doc/posix-functions/mbtowc.texi: Likewise.
  

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• doc/posix-functions/mbtowc.texi

• @node mbtowc
  @section @code{mbtowc}
  @findex mbtowc
  
  POSIX specification:@* @url{https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/mbtowc.html}
  
  Gnulib module: mbtowc
  
  Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
  @itemize
  @item
  This function is missing on some platforms:
  Android 4.4.
  @end itemize
  
  Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
  @itemize
  @item
  In UTF-8 locales, this function may return wide characters up to 0x7FFFFFFF
  (that is, beyond 0x0010FFFF) on some platforms:
  @c https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2373
  @c https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26034
  glibc 2.33.
  @item
  This function accumulates hidden state on some platforms:
  glibc 2.8 (see @url{https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9674}).
  @item
  On Windows and 32-bit AIX platforms, @code{wchar_t} is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
  accommodate all Unicode characters.
  @end itemize
  

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