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relocatable-maint.texi: escape braces The change causes makeinfo 5.2 to fail: env LANG= LC_MESSAGES= LC_ALL= LANGUAGE= makeinfo --no-split --reference-limit=2000 gnulib.texi ./relocatable-maint.texi:153: misplaced { ... Escaping the braces as per the attached patch seems to fix this.
author Daniel Albers <daniel@lbe.rs>
date Thu, 16 Jan 2014 12:56:52 +0100
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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: wcswidth

Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
@item
This function is missing on some platforms:
OpenBSD 3.8, Minix 3.1.8, IRIX 5.3, Solaris 2.5.1, mingw, MSVC 9, BeOS.
@item
This function handles combining characters in UTF-8 locales incorrectly on some
platforms:
Mac OS X 10.3.
@end itemize

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