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In article <4he9gg$m9l@pentagon.io.com>, jamshid@io.com (Jamshid Afshar) writes:
> Why aren't there wchar_t versions of functions like atoi() strtod()?

There are!  X3J11 was breaking ground in this area (I don't know of any
other language standard that addressed these issues before C did) and
they weren't sure that they knew enough to specify a complete library,
nor did they want to delay issuing the standard until they were sure,
so the original standard contained only the most basic multibyte and
wide character functions.  After the standard was issued, work continued
(primarily in Japan where they have a lot of experience working with
multibyte and wide characters) which resulted in Ammendment 1 to the C
Standard that adds wide character versions of most of the character,
string, and I/O functions.
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