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

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  Date : 2012-01-30T21:31:57
  

  wcwidth: Work around bug in UTF-8 locale on OpenBSD 5.0.
  
  * m4/wcwidth.m4 (gl_FUNC_WCWIDTH): Test also wcwidth of U+05B0.
  * doc/posix-functions/wcwidth.texi: Mention the OpenBSD 5.0 bug.
  

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• doc/posix-functions/wcwidth.texi

• @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, OpenBSD 5.0.
  @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
  

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