@item
This function is missing on some platforms:
MacOS X 10.3, FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 3.0, OpenBSD 3.8, AIX 4.3.2, HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 10, Cygwin, mingw.
+@item
+On AIX and Windows platforms, @code{wchar_t} is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
+accommodate all Unicode characters.
@end itemize