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diff --git a/man3/mbsinit.3 b/man3/mbsinit.3 index 41a43a4..fc76d62 100644 --- a/man3/mbsinit.3 +++ b/man3/mbsinit.3 @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ .\" OpenGroup's Single UNIX specification http://www.UNIX-systems.org/online.html .\" ISO/IEC 9899:1999 .\" -.TH mbsinit 3 2023-07-20 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01" +.TH mbsinit 3 2024-01-28 "Linux man-pages 6.7" .SH NAME mbsinit \- test for initial shift state .SH LIBRARY @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Standard C library .SH SYNOPSIS .nf .B #include <wchar.h> -.PP +.P .BI "int mbsinit(const mbstate_t *" ps ); .fi .SH DESCRIPTION @@ -29,8 +29,8 @@ Conversion of a string uses a finite-state machine; when it is interrupted after the complete conversion of a number of characters, it may need to save a state for processing the remaining characters. Such a conversion -state is needed for the sake of encodings such as ISO-2022 and UTF-7. -.PP +state is needed for the sake of encodings such as ISO/IEC\~2022 and UTF-7. +.P The initial state is the state at the beginning of conversion of a string. There are two kinds of state: the one used by multibyte to wide character conversion functions, such as @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ but they both fit in a .IR mbstate_t , and they both have the same representation for an initial state. -.PP +.P For 8-bit encodings, all states are equivalent to the initial state. For multibyte encodings like UTF-8, EUC-*, BIG5, or SJIS, the wide character to multibyte conversion functions never produce non-initial states, but the @@ -50,26 +50,26 @@ multibyte to wide-character conversion functions like .BR mbrtowc (3) do produce non-initial states when interrupted in the middle of a character. -.PP +.P One possible way to create an .I mbstate_t in initial state is to set it to zero: -.PP +.P .in +4n .EX mbstate_t state; memset(&state, 0, sizeof(state)); .EE .in -.PP +.P On Linux, the following works as well, but might generate compiler warnings: -.PP +.P .in +4n .EX mbstate_t state = { 0 }; .EE .in -.PP +.P The function .BR mbsinit () tests whether @@ -98,7 +98,6 @@ T{ .BR mbsinit () T} Thread safety MT-Safe .TE -.sp 1 .SH STANDARDS C11, POSIX.1-2008. .SH HISTORY |