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Diffstat (limited to 'doc/wchar_t.texi')
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/wchar_t.texi b/doc/wchar_t.texi index f5c239a5..28c63cdf 100644 --- a/doc/wchar_t.texi +++ b/doc/wchar_t.texi @@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ problem mentioned in the section @ref{char * strings}. They introduced @item a type @samp{wchar_t}, designed to encapsulate an entire character, @item -a ``wide string'' type @samp{wchar_t *}, and +a ``wide string'' type @samp{wchar_t *}, with some API functions declared in +@posixheader{wchar.h}, and @item functions declared in @posixheader{wctype.h} that were meant to supplant the ones in @posixheader{ctype.h}. @@ -18,8 +19,8 @@ Unfortunately, this API and its implementation has numerous problems: @itemize @bullet @item -On AIX and Windows platforms, @code{wchar_t} is a 16-bit type. This -means that it can never accommodate an entire Unicode character. Either +On Windows platforms and on AIX in 32-bit mode, @code{wchar_t} is a 16-bit type. +This means that it can never accommodate an entire Unicode character. Either the @code{wchar_t *} strings are limited to characters in UCS-2 (the ``Basic Multilingual Plane'' of Unicode), or --- if @code{wchar_t *} strings are encoded in UTF-16 --- a @code{wchar_t} represents only half |