X-Git-Url: http://erislabs.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fposix-functions%2Fwcswidth.texi;h=cb61a9a688068a6d27ff9ab19e2e72b8ebff323d;hb=eadf1d03c19abe009c81484b3ebaa443b884a95d;hp=39a00bcb82cdc1fa05aa269f9b8ca0ac2752d626;hpb=2b6c08c775ae4e80b52aa41058ea5939f778b44b;p=gnulib.git diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/wcswidth.texi b/doc/posix-functions/wcswidth.texi index 39a00bcb8..cb61a9a68 100644 --- a/doc/posix-functions/wcswidth.texi +++ b/doc/posix-functions/wcswidth.texi @@ -2,20 +2,24 @@ @section @code{wcswidth} @findex wcswidth -POSIX specification: @url{http://www.opengroup.org/susv3xsh/wcswidth.html} +POSIX specification:@* @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/wcswidth.html} -Gnulib module: --- +Gnulib module: wcswidth Portability problems fixed by Gnulib: @itemize +@item +This function is missing on some platforms: +OpenBSD 3.8, IRIX 5.3, Solaris 2.5.1, mingw, BeOS. +@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 -This function is missing on some platforms: -OpenBSD 3.8, Solaris 2.5.1, mingw, BeOS. -@item -On Windows platforms, @code{wchar_t} is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot +On AIX and Windows platforms, @code{wchar_t} is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot accommodate all Unicode characters. @end itemize