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/mbrlen.3 | 131 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 131 insertions(+) create mode 100644 man3/mbrlen.3 (limited to 'man3/mbrlen.3') diff --git a/man3/mbrlen.3 b/man3/mbrlen.3 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bf19f88 --- /dev/null +++ b/man3/mbrlen.3 @@ -0,0 +1,131 @@ +'\" 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 mbrlen 3 2023-07-20 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01" +.SH NAME +mbrlen \- determine number of bytes in next multibyte character +.SH LIBRARY +Standard C library +.RI ( libc ", " \-lc ) +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.B #include +.PP +.BI "size_t mbrlen(const char " s "[restrict ." n "], size_t " n , +.BI " mbstate_t *restrict " ps ); +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +The +.BR mbrlen () +function inspects at most +.I n +bytes of the multibyte +string starting at +.I s +and extracts the next complete multibyte character. +It updates the shift state +.IR *ps . +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 resets the +shift state +.I *ps +to the initial state and returns 0. +.PP +If the +.I n +bytes starting at +.I s +do not contain a complete multibyte +character, +.BR mbrlen () +returns +.IR "(size_t)\ \-2" . +This can happen even if +.I n +>= +.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 mbrlen () +returns +.I (size_t)\ \-1 +and sets +.I errno +to +.BR EILSEQ . +In this case, +the effects on +.I *ps +are undefined. +.PP +If +.I ps +is NULL, a static anonymous state known only to the +.BR mbrlen () +function is used instead. +.SH RETURN VALUE +The +.BR mbrlen () +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 +.I "(size_t)\ \-1" +and sets +.I errno +to +.BR EILSEQ , +if an invalid multibyte sequence was +encountered. +It returns +.I (size_t)\ \-2 +if it couldn't parse a complete multibyte +character, meaning that +.I n +should be increased. +.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 mbrlen () +T} Thread safety MT-Unsafe race:mbrlen/!ps +.TE +.sp 1 +.SH STANDARDS +C11, POSIX.1-2008. +.SH HISTORY +POSIX.1-2001, C99. +.SH NOTES +The behavior of +.BR mbrlen () +depends on the +.B LC_CTYPE +category of the +current locale. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR mbrtowc (3) -- cgit v1.2.3