From 2100b4ce152e9c70b3ce8760112d5a24ead4e52d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jay Berkenbilt <ejb@ql.org>
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2020 21:34:45 -0400
Subject: Allow qpdf to be built on systems without wchar_t (fixes #406)

---
 manual/qpdf-manual.xml | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

(limited to 'manual')

diff --git a/manual/qpdf-manual.xml b/manual/qpdf-manual.xml
index e22edc2d..83cb6bf9 100644
--- a/manual/qpdf-manual.xml
+++ b/manual/qpdf-manual.xml
@@ -239,6 +239,16 @@ make
     Jian Ma.  This is also discussed in more detail in
     <filename>README-windows.md</filename>.
    </para>
+   <para>
+    While <type>wchar_t</type> is part of the C++ standard, qpdf uses
+    it in only one place in the public API, and it's just in a helper
+    function. It is possible to build qpdf on a system that doesn't
+    have <type>wchar_t</type>, and it's also possible to compile a
+    program that uses qpdf on a system without <type>wchar_t</type> as
+    long as you don't call that one method. This is a very unusual
+    situation. For a detailed discussion, please see the top-level
+    README.md file in qpdf's source distribution.
+   </para>
    <para>
     There are some other things you can do with the build.  Although
     qpdf uses <application>autoconf</application>, it does not use
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