From 399644e47874bff147afb19c89228901ac39340e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Baumann Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 21:40:15 +0200 Subject: Adding upstream version 6.05.01. Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann --- man3/mblen.3 | 118 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 118 insertions(+) create mode 100644 man3/mblen.3 (limited to 'man3/mblen.3') diff --git a/man3/mblen.3 b/man3/mblen.3 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0a8bbde --- /dev/null +++ b/man3/mblen.3 @@ -0,0 +1,118 @@ +'\" t +.\" Copyright (c) Bruno Haible +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later +.\" +.\" References consulted: +.\" GNU glibc-2 source code and manual +.\" Dinkumware C library reference http://www.dinkumware.com/ +.\" OpenGroup's Single UNIX specification http://www.UNIX-systems.org/online.html +.\" ISO/IEC 9899:1999 +.\" +.TH mblen 3 2023-07-20 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01" +.SH NAME +mblen \- determine number of bytes in next multibyte character +.SH LIBRARY +Standard C library +.RI ( libc ", " \-lc ) +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.B #include +.PP +.BI "int mblen(const char " s [. n "], size_t " n ); +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +If +.I s +is not NULL, the +.BR mblen () +function inspects at most +.I n +bytes of the multibyte string starting at +.I s +and extracts the +next complete multibyte character. +It uses a static anonymous shift state known only to the +.BR mblen () +function. +If the multibyte character is not the null wide +character, it returns the number of bytes that were consumed from +.IR s . +If the multibyte character is the null wide character, it returns 0. +.PP +If the +.I n +bytes starting at +.I s +do not contain a complete multibyte +character, +.BR mblen () +returns \-1. +This can happen even if +.I n +is greater than or equal to +.IR MB_CUR_MAX , +if the multibyte string contains redundant shift sequences. +.PP +If the multibyte string starting at +.I s +contains an invalid multibyte +sequence before the next complete character, +.BR mblen () +also returns \-1. +.PP +If +.I s +is NULL, the +.BR mblen () +function +.\" The Dinkumware doc and the Single UNIX specification say this, but +.\" glibc doesn't implement this. +resets the shift state, known to only this function, to the initial state, and +returns nonzero if the encoding has nontrivial shift state, or zero if the +encoding is stateless. +.SH RETURN VALUE +The +.BR mblen () +function returns the number of +bytes parsed from the multibyte +sequence starting at +.IR s , +if a non-null wide character was recognized. +It returns 0, if a null wide character was recognized. +It returns \-1, if an +invalid multibyte sequence was encountered or if it couldn't parse a complete +multibyte character. +.SH ATTRIBUTES +For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see +.BR attributes (7). +.TS +allbox; +lbx lb lb +l l l. +Interface Attribute Value +T{ +.na +.nh +.BR mblen () +T} Thread safety MT-Unsafe race +.TE +.sp 1 +.SH VERSIONS +The function +.BR mbrlen (3) +provides a better interface to the same +functionality. +.SH STANDARDS +C11, POSIX.1-2008. +.SH HISTORY +POSIX.1-2001, C99. +.SH NOTES +The behavior of +.BR mblen () +depends on the +.B LC_CTYPE +category of the +current locale. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR mbrlen (3) -- cgit v1.2.3