Thanks for your answer. > > Nevertheless, I don't really understand the purpose of this function. > > Is it supposed to bypass a bug in mbsrtowcs (defined in wchar.h), as > > said in the following commentaries? > > /* xmbsrtowcs.c -- replacement function for mbsrtowcs */ > > /* On some locales (ex. ja_JP.sjis), mbsrtowc doesn't convert 0x5c to > U<0x5c>. > > So, this function is made for converting 0x5c to U<0x5c>. */ > > If so, why isn't it corrected to wchar.h? > > > I don't really understand this question.
What is the role of xmbsrtowcs? Why doesn't mbsrtowcs convert 0x5c to U<0x5c>?
