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Android 17: Regression Breaks Non-ASCII Strings

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The problem is described as follows: "On versions of Android 17 from September 2026, the `wcscspn()` and `wcspbrk()` functions stop at the first character of the string greater than or equal to U+0100 when the reject set contains at least two characters less than U+0100. The character is then considered as a correspondence, even if it is not present in the whole. The `wcsspn()`, `wcsschr()`, `wcsrchr()`, `wmemchr()` and `wcsstr()` functions work…
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The problem is described as follows: "On versions of Android 17 from September 2026, the `wcscspn()` and `wcspbrk()` functions stop at the first character of the string greater than or equal to U+0100 when the reject set contains at least two characters less than U+0100. The character is then considered as a correspondence, even if it is not present in the whole. The `wcsspn()`, `wcsschr()`, `wcsrchr()`, `wmemchr()` and `wcsstr()` functions work…

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Programmez! broke the news on Monday, October 19, 2026.
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