Re: standards/47616 (Manuals backdate multibyte functions to ANSI C, though A stands for American (the "big ten inch"))

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Synopsis: Manuals backdate multibyte functions to ANSI C, though A stands for American (the "big ten inch")

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I can't easily find a copy of the actual ANSI C standard, but from the
drafts I can find, it looks like these functions originated in ANSI C
and not in ISO C.  For example, they're already here in this 1988
draft of the ANSI C standard:
https://web.archive.org/web/20161223125339/http://flash-gordon.me.uk/ansi.c.txt

If there's a better authority for this (if someone goes to the trouble
of finding a copy behind the paywalls) that shows it should be ISO C90
and not ANSI C89, we can fix  this, but until then it looks to me like
the man pages are correct as is.