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Mention that AIX has a crippled wchar_t type.
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1 @node mbstowcs
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2 @section @code{mbstowcs}
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3 @findex mbstowcs
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5 POSIX specification: @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/mbstowcs.html}
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7 Gnulib module: ---
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9 Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
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10 @itemize
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11 @end itemize
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13 Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
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14 @itemize
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15 @item
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16 On AIX and Windows platforms, @code{wchar_t} is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
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17 accommodate all Unicode characters.
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18 @end itemize