[ 2023-06-25; Daniel comments ]

During the Varna LWG discussions of this issue it had been pointed out that the wording change applied to [depr.locale.stdcvt.req] bullet (1.1) could exclude now the previously allowed support of narrow character types as a "wide-character" with e.g. a Maxcode value of 255. First, I don't think that the revised wording really forbids this. Second, the originating proposal N2401 doesn't indicate what the actual intend here was and it seems questionable to assign LEWG to this issue given that the relevant wording is part of deprecated components, especially given their current position expressed here to eliminate the specification of the affected components as suggested by P2871.