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authorBruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>2008-12-23 02:16:48 +0100
committerBruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>2008-12-23 02:28:45 +0100
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Mention platform-dependent limitations of wchar_t.
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@@ -15,4 +15,7 @@ Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
@item
This function is missing on all non-glibc platforms:
MacOS X 10.3, FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 3.0, OpenBSD 3.8, AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 10, Cygwin, mingw, Interix 3.5, BeOS.
+@item
+On AIX and Windows platforms, @code{wchar_t} is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
+accommodate all Unicode characters.
@end itemize