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Instead of just deleting it, turn the original page into a general overview of the multibyte character conversion functions, somewhat similar to stdio(3).
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.\" Copyright (c) 2002, 2003 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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.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by
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.\" Donn Seeley of BSDI.
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
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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 November 19, 2003
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.Dt MBLEN 3
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm mblen
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.Nd get number of bytes in a character
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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 int
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.Fn mblen "const char *mbchar" "size_t nbytes"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Fn mblen
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function computes the length in bytes
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of a multibyte character
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.Fa mbchar .
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Up to
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.Fa nbytes
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bytes are examined.
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.Pp
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A call with a null
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.Fa mbchar
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pointer returns nonzero if the current locale requires shift states,
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zero otherwise;
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if shift states are required, the shift state is reset to the initial state.
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.Sh RETURN VALUES
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If
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.Fa mbchar
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is
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.Dv NULL ,
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the
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.Fn mblen
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function returns nonzero if shift states are supported,
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zero otherwise.
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If
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.Fa mbchar
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is valid,
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.Fn mblen
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returns the number of bytes processed in
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.Fa mbchar ,
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or \-1 if no multibyte character
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could be recognized or converted.
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.Sh ERRORS
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The
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.Fn mblen
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function will fail if:
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.Bl -tag -width Er
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.\".It Bq Er EINVAL
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.\"Invalid argument.
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.It Bq Er EILSEQ
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An invalid multibyte sequence was detected.
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr mbrlen 3 ,
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.Xr mbtowc 3
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.Sh STANDARDS
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The
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.Fn mblen
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function conforms to
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.St -isoC .
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.Sh BUGS
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The current implementation does not support shift states.
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