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33 .Nd converts a multibyte character to a wide character (restartable)
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41 .Fn mbrtowc "wchar_t * restrict pwc" "const char * restrict s" "size_t n" \
42 "mbstate_t * restrict ps"
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47 usually converts the multibyte character pointed to by
49 to a wide character, and stores the wide character
50 to the wchar_t object pointed to by
58 points to a valid character.
59 The conversion happens in accordance with, and changes the conversion
60 state described in the mbstate_t object pointed to by
62 This function may examine at most
64 bytes of the array beginning from
69 points to a valid character and the character corresponds to a nul wide
72 places the mbstate_t object pointed to by
74 to an initial conversion state.
80 may accept the byte sequence pointed to by
82 not forming a complete multibyte character
83 but which may be part of a valid character.
84 In this case, this function will accept all such bytes
85 and save them into the conversion state object pointed to by
87 They will be used at subsequent calls of this function to restart
88 the conversion suspended.
94 category of the current locale.
96 These are the special cases:
97 .Bl -tag -width 012345678901
100 sets the conversion state object pointed to by
102 to an initial state and always returns 0.
105 the value returned does not indicate whether the current encoding of
106 the locale is state-dependent.
114 and is equivalent to the following call:
115 .Bd -literal -offset indent
116 mbrtowc(NULL, "", 1, ps);
119 The conversion from a multibyte character to a wide character has
120 taken place and the conversion state may be affected, but the resulting
121 wide character is discarded.
124 uses its own internal state object to keep the conversion state,
127 mentioned in this manual page.
129 Calling any other functions in
131 never changes the internal state of
133 which is initialized at startup time of the program.
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140 .Bl -tag -width 012345678901
142 The next bytes pointed to by
144 form a nul character.
148 points to a valid character,
150 returns the number of bytes in the character.
153 points to a byte sequence which possibly contains part of a valid
154 multibyte character, but which is incomplete.
159 this case can only occur if the array pointed to by
161 contains a redundant shift sequence.
164 points to an illegal byte sequence which does not form a valid multibyte
170 to indicate the error.
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175 may cause an error in the following case:
179 points to an invalid or incomplete multibyte character.
182 points to an invalid or uninitialized mbstate_t object.
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195 The restrict qualifier is added at