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Mention effects of _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS on Solaris.
author Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
date Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:50:16 +0200
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@node wcswidth
@section @code{wcswidth}
@findex wcswidth

POSIX specification: @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/wcswidth.html}

Gnulib module: ---

Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
@end itemize

Portability problems not 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
On AIX and Windows platforms, @code{wchar_t} is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
accommodate all Unicode characters.
@end itemize