88 lines
2.9 KiB
Groff
88 lines
2.9 KiB
Groff
.\" Copyright (c) 2002-2004 Tim J. Robbins. All rights reserved.
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.\" Copyright (c) 1993
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.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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.\"
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.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by
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.\" Donn Seeley of BSDI.
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.\"
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.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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.\" are met:
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\"
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.\" From @(#)multibyte.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
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.\" From FreeBSD: src/lib/libc/locale/multibyte.3,v 1.22 2003/11/08 03:23:11 tjr Exp
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd April 8, 2004
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.Dt MBSTOWCS 3
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm mbstowcs
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.Nd convert a character string to a wide-character string
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.Sh LIBRARY
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.Lb libc
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.In stdlib.h
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.Ft size_t
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.Fo mbstowcs
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.Fa "wchar_t * restrict wcstring" "const char * restrict mbstring"
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.Fa "size_t nwchars"
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.Fc
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Fn mbstowcs
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function converts a multibyte character string
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.Fa mbstring
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beginning in the initial conversion state
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into a wide character string
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.Fa wcstring .
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No more than
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.Fa nwchars
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wide characters are stored.
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A terminating null wide character is appended if there is room.
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.Sh RETURN VALUES
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The
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.Fn mbstowcs
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function returns the number of wide characters converted,
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not counting any terminating null wide character, or \-1
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if an invalid multibyte character was encountered.
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.Sh ERRORS
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The
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.Fn mbstowcs
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function will fail if:
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.Bl -tag -width Er
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.It Bq Er EILSEQ
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An invalid multibyte sequence was detected.
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.It Bq Er EINVAL
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The conversion state is invalid.
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr mbsrtowcs 3 ,
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.Xr mbtowc 3 ,
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.Xr multibyte 3
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.Sh STANDARDS
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The
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.Fn mbstowcs
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function conforms to
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.St -isoC-99 .
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