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