```
This is not specific to UCRT. It looks like legacy CRT behavior; all MSVCR*
DLLs are also affected.
```
Yes, this issue seems to come from old CRTs. My wording probably wasn't clear,
UCRT-specific part was that return value is correct with UTF-8 locales.
```
I have no idea about how widely locales are used on Windows.
```
Many applications may call setlocale(LC_ALL, ""). If they use gettext, they
will call GNU libintl's replacement which checks LC_* and LANG environment
variables. There is always a chance it will set locale which uses DBCS code
page.
One could expect ISO C conversion functions to work properly if they don't use
iconv(3).
```
If we decide to provide replacements for broken Microsoft ones, which then
nobody will use, there's
probably little worth in doing that.
```
This is a good point. I think the most common use of ISO C conversion functions
is:
mbstate_t state ={0}; // or memset
size_t buffer_size = mbsrtowcs (NULL, &str, 0, &state);
If (buffer_size == (size_t)-1)
// handle conversion error
wchar_t *buffer = malloc ((buffer_size + 1) * sizeof (wchar_t));
If (!buffer)
// handle out-of-memory
mbsrtowcs (buffer, &str, buffer_size + 1, &state);
or the same logic for wcsrtombs. I don't think there are many (if any) people
who try to convert strings char-by-char, let alone people who would call
mbrtowc with anything but MB_CUR_MAX.
- Kirill Makurin
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