mirror of
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/gnulib.git
synced 2025-08-17 12:41:05 +03:00
21f2ead19f
* m4/wcwidth.m4 (gl_FUNC_WCWIDTH): Test also wcwidth of U+05B0. * doc/posix-functions/wcwidth.texi: Mention the OpenBSD 5.0 bug.
29 lines
759 B
Plaintext
29 lines
759 B
Plaintext
@node wcwidth
|
|
@section @code{wcwidth}
|
|
@findex wcwidth
|
|
|
|
POSIX specification:@* @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/wcwidth.html}
|
|
|
|
Gnulib module: wcwidth
|
|
|
|
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
|
|
@itemize
|
|
@item
|
|
This function is missing on some platforms:
|
|
Minix 3.1.8, IRIX 5.3, Solaris 2.5.1, mingw, MSVC 9, BeOS.
|
|
@item
|
|
This function is not declared (without @code{-D_GNU_SOURCE}) on some platforms:
|
|
glibc 2.8.
|
|
@item
|
|
This function handles combining characters in UTF-8 locales incorrectly on some
|
|
platforms:
|
|
MacOS X 10.3, OpenBSD 5.0.
|
|
@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
|