Mention platform-dependent limitations of wchar_t.

[gnulib.git] / doc / posix-functions / towctrans_l.texi

diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/towctrans_l.texi b/doc/posix-functions/towctrans_l.texi
index e260760..955158d 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/posix-functions/towctrans_l.texi
+++ b/doc/posix-functions/towctrans_l.texi
@@ -15,4 +15,7 @@ Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
 @item
 This function is missing on all non-glibc platforms:
 MacOS X 10.3, FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 3.0, OpenBSD 3.8, AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 10, Cygwin, mingw, Interix 3.5, BeOS.
+@item
+On AIX and Windows platforms, @code{wchar_t} is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
+accommodate all Unicode characters.
 @end itemize