@node fwide
@section @code{fwide}
@findex fwide

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

Gnulib module: ---

Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
@end itemize

Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
@item
This function is missing on some platforms:
HP-UX 11.00, IRIX 6.5, Solaris 2.6, Cygwin 1.5.x, 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.
@item
@code{fwide} is not guaranteed to be able to change a file stream's mode
to a different mode than the current one.
@end itemize
