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/wctomb.3 | 120 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 120 insertions(+) create mode 100644 man3/wctomb.3 (limited to 'man3/wctomb.3') diff --git a/man3/wctomb.3 b/man3/wctomb.3 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..70ddb28 --- /dev/null +++ b/man3/wctomb.3 @@ -0,0 +1,120 @@ +'\" 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 wctomb 3 2023-07-20 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01" +.SH NAME +wctomb \- convert a wide character to a multibyte sequence +.SH LIBRARY +Standard C library +.RI ( libc ", " \-lc ) +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.B #include +.PP +.BI "int wctomb(char *" s ", wchar_t " wc ); +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +If +.I s +is not NULL, +the +.BR wctomb () +function converts the wide character +.I wc +to its multibyte representation and stores it at the beginning of +the character array pointed to by +.IR s . +It updates the shift state, which +is stored in a static anonymous variable +known only to the +.BR wctomb () +function, +and returns the length of said multibyte representation, +that is, the number of +bytes written at +.IR s . +.PP +The programmer must ensure that there is +room for at least +.B MB_CUR_MAX +bytes at +.IR s . +.PP +If +.I s +is NULL, the +.BR wctomb () +function +.\" The Dinkumware doc and the Single UNIX specification say this, but +.\" glibc doesn't implement this. +resets the shift state, known only to 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 +If +.I s +is not NULL, the +.BR wctomb () +function +returns the number of bytes +that have been written to the byte array at +.IR s . +If +.I wc +can not be +represented as a multibyte sequence (according +to the current locale), \-1 is returned. +.PP +If +.I s +is NULL, the +.BR wctomb () +function returns nonzero if the +encoding has nontrivial shift state, or zero if the encoding is stateless. +.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 wctomb () +T} Thread safety MT-Unsafe race +.TE +.sp 1 +.SH VERSIONS +The function +.BR wcrtomb (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 wctomb () +depends on the +.B LC_CTYPE +category of the +current locale. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR MB_CUR_MAX (3), +.BR mblen (3), +.BR mbstowcs (3), +.BR mbtowc (3), +.BR wcrtomb (3), +.BR wcstombs (3) -- cgit v1.2.3