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Diffstat (limited to 'man3/iconv.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/iconv.3 | 19 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/man3/iconv.3 b/man3/iconv.3 index 6e4a091..1f9f96f 100644 --- a/man3/iconv.3 +++ b/man3/iconv.3 @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ .\" 2000-06-30 correction by Yuichi SATO <sato@complex.eng.hokudai.ac.jp> .\" 2000-11-15 aeb, fixed prototype .\" -.TH iconv 3 2023-07-20 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01" +.TH iconv 3 2023-10-31 "Linux man-pages 6.7" .SH NAME iconv \- perform character set conversion .SH LIBRARY @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Standard C library .SH SYNOPSIS .nf .B #include <iconv.h> -.PP +.P .BI "size_t iconv(iconv_t " cd , .BI " char **restrict " inbuf ", size_t *restrict " inbytesleft , .BI " char **restrict " outbuf ", size_t *restrict " outbytesleft ); @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ argument is the address of a variable that points to the first byte available in the output buffer; .I outbytesleft indicates the number of bytes available in the output buffer. -.PP +.P The main case is when \fIinbuf\fP is not NULL and \fI*inbuf\fP is not NULL. In this case, the .BR iconv () @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ function converts the multibyte sequence starting at \fI*inbuf\fP to a multibyte sequence starting at \fI*outbuf\fP. At most \fI*inbytesleft\fP bytes, starting at \fI*inbuf\fP, will be read. At most \fI*outbytesleft\fP bytes, starting at \fI*outbuf\fP, will be written. -.PP +.P The .BR iconv () function converts one multibyte character at a time, and for @@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ beginning of the incomplete multibyte sequence. The output buffer has no more room for the next converted character. In this case, it sets \fIerrno\fP to \fBE2BIG\fP and returns .IR (size_t)\ \-1 . -.PP +.P A different case is when \fIinbuf\fP is NULL or \fI*inbuf\fP is NULL, but \fIoutbuf\fP is not NULL and \fI*outbuf\fP is not NULL. In this case, the @@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ If the output buffer has no more room for this reset sequence, it sets Otherwise, it increments \fI*outbuf\fP and decrements \fI*outbytesleft\fP by the number of bytes written. -.PP +.P A third case is when \fIinbuf\fP is NULL or \fI*inbuf\fP is NULL, and \fIoutbuf\fP is NULL or \fI*outbuf\fP is NULL. In this case, the @@ -191,8 +191,7 @@ T{ .BR iconv () T} Thread safety MT-Safe race:cd .TE -.sp 1 -.PP +.P The .BR iconv () function is MT-Safe, as long as callers arrange for @@ -209,7 +208,7 @@ In each series of calls to .BR iconv (), the last should be one with \fIinbuf\fP or \fI*inbuf\fP equal to NULL, in order to flush out any partially converted input. -.PP +.P Although .I inbuf and @@ -221,7 +220,7 @@ as C strings or as arrays of characters: the interpretation of character byte sequences is handled internally by the conversion functions. In some encodings, a zero byte may be a valid part of a multibyte character. -.PP +.P The caller of .BR iconv () must ensure that the pointers passed to the function are suitable |