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changeset 18299:1c39056c6c9f
btowc: document problems in C locale
* doc/posix-functions/btowc.texi (btowc): Mention incompatibility
with mbrtowc. See: http://bugs.gnu.org/23269#32
| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> |
|---|---|
| date | Tue, 19 Apr 2016 09:11:34 -0700 |
| parents | e2e492c211bb |
| children | df80f523aa64 |
| files | ChangeLog doc/posix-functions/btowc.texi |
| diffstat | 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/ChangeLog Fri Apr 15 07:41:08 2016 -0700 +++ b/ChangeLog Tue Apr 19 09:11:34 2016 -0700 @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2016-04-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + btowc: document problems in C locale + * doc/posix-functions/btowc.texi (btowc): Mention incompatibility + with mbrtowc. See: http://bugs.gnu.org/23269#32 + 2016-04-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> mktime: improve integer overflow checking
--- a/doc/posix-functions/btowc.texi Fri Apr 15 07:41:08 2016 -0700 +++ b/doc/posix-functions/btowc.texi Tue Apr 19 09:11:34 2016 -0700 @@ -24,4 +24,8 @@ @item On AIX and Windows platforms, @code{wchar_t} is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot accommodate all Unicode characters. +@item +In the C or POSIX locales, this function is not consistent with +Gnulib's @code{mbrtowc} and can return @code{WEOF}: +glibc 2.23, MirOS BSD #10. @end itemize