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wcrtomb: Work around bug on Android 4.3. * m4/wcrtomb.m4 (gl_FUNC_WCRTOMB): Test also whether wcrtomb works in the C locale. * lib/wcrtomb.c (wcrtomb): Provide alternate implementation for Android, which does not have the 'wctomb' function. * doc/posix-functions/wcrtomb.texi: Mention the Android bug. * tests/test-wcrtomb.c (main): Accept argument '5'. * tests/test-wcrtomb.sh: Add tests in the POSIX locale.
author Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
date Fri, 25 Jan 2019 23:39:28 +0100
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@node wcrtomb
@section @code{wcrtomb}
@findex wcrtomb

POSIX specification:@* @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/wcrtomb.html}

Gnulib module: wcrtomb

Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
@item
This function is missing on some platforms:
Minix 3.1.8, HP-UX 11.00, IRIX 6.5, Solaris 2.6, mingw, Interix 3.5.
@item
This function produces wrong characters in the C locale on some platforms:
Android 4.3.
@item
This function returns 0 when the first argument is NULL in some locales on some platforms:
AIX 4.3, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 11.3.
@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