On 18 Sep 2002, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> mb = multibyte, w = wide.
>

Ah, yes, but AFAICS the _only_ thing these functions do is to convert to
wide characters. So despite the name they're actually wide character
functions IMO. (This is in C BTW, other languages do have mb string
manipulation.)


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