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.\" Copyright (c) Bruno Haible <haible@clisp.cons.org>
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.\" This is free documentation; you can redistribute it and/or
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.\" modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
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.\" published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
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.\" References consulted:
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.\" GNU glibc-2 source code and manual
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intro.1, time.1, accept.2, bind.2, connect.2, execve.2, flock.2, getdents.2, getpriority.2, getuid.2, intro.2, ioctl.2, mincore.2, mknod.2, personality.2, ptrace.2, read.2, recv.2, select_tut.2, send.2, sendfile.2, shmctl.2, sigaction.2, signal.2, stat.2, times.2, truncate.2, umask.2, wait.2, MB_CUR_MAX.3, MB_LEN_MAX.3, argz_add.3, btowc.3, clearenv.3, clock.3, cmsg.3, end.3, endian.3, errno.3, exit.3, fgetwc.3, fgetws.3, fopen.3, fputwc.3, fputws.3, fseek.3, fwide.3, getfsent.3, getgrnam.3, gethostid.3, getipnodebyname.3, getmntent.3, getpwnam.3, getwchar.3, grantpt.3, iconv.3, iconv_close.3, iconv_open.3, insque.3, intro.3, iswalnum.3, iswalpha.3, iswblank.3, iswcntrl.3, iswctype.3, iswdigit.3, iswgraph.3, iswlower.3, iswprint.3, iswpunct.3, iswspace.3, iswupper.3, iswxdigit.3, malloc.3, mblen.3, mbrlen.3, mbrtowc.3, mbsinit.3, mbsnrtowcs.3, mbsrtowcs.3, mbstowcs.3, mbtowc.3, mkstemp.3, mktemp.3, nl_langinfo.3, openpty.3, posix_openpt.3, printf.3, ptsname.3, putwchar.3, qecvt.3, rcmd.3, readdir.3, rexec.3, rpc.3, setnetgrent.3, shm_open.3, sigpause.3, stdin.3, stpcpy.3, strftime.3, strptime.3, syslog.3, towctrans.3, towlower.3, towupper.3, ttyslot.3, ungetwc.3, unlocked_stdio.3, wcpcpy.3, wcpncpy.3, wcrtomb.3, wcscasecmp.3, wcscat.3, wcschr.3, wcscmp.3, wcscpy.3, wcscspn.3, wcsdup.3, wcslen.3, wcsncasecmp.3, wcsncat.3, wcsncmp.3, wcsncpy.3, wcsnlen.3, wcsnrtombs.3, wcspbrk.3, wcsrchr.3, wcsrtombs.3, wcsspn.3, wcsstr.3, wcstok.3, wcstombs.3, wcswidth.3, wctob.3, wctomb.3, wctrans.3, wctype.3, wcwidth.3, wmemchr.3, wmemcmp.3, wmemcpy.3, wmemmove.3, wmemset.3, wprintf.3, console_ioctl.4, pts.4, elf.5, filesystems.5, hosts.5, proc.5, ttytype.5, boot.7, capabilities.7, credentials.7, epoll.7, glob.7, koi8-r.7, path_resolution.7, pty.7, signal.7, suffixes.7, time.7, unicode.7, unix.7, uri.7, utf-8.7: global fix: s/Unix/UNIX/
The man pages were rather inconsistent in the use of "Unix"
versus "UNIX". Let's go with the trademark usage.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-10-12 04:45:38 +00:00
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.\" OpenGroup's Single UNIX specification http://www.UNIX-systems.org/online.html
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.\" ISO/IEC 9899:1999
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.\"
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2011-10-16 06:07:31 +00:00
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.TH WCSTOMBS 3 2011-10-16 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
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.SH NAME
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wcstombs \- convert a wide-character string to a multibyte string
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.nf
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.B #include <stdlib.h>
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.sp
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.BI "size_t wcstombs(char *" dest ", const wchar_t *" src ", size_t " n );
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.fi
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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If \fIdest\fP is not a NULL pointer, the
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.BR wcstombs ()
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function converts
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the wide-character string \fIsrc\fP to a multibyte string starting at
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\fIdest\fP.
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At most \fIn\fP bytes are written to \fIdest\fP.
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The conversion
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starts in the initial state.
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The conversion can stop for three reasons:
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.PP
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1. A wide character has been encountered that can not be represented as a
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multibyte sequence (according to the current locale).
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In this case
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.I (size_t)\ \-1
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is returned.
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.PP
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2. The length limit forces a stop.
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In this case the number of bytes written to
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\fIdest\fP is returned, but the shift state at this point is lost.
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.PP
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3. The wide-character string has been completely converted, including the
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fgetws.3, fputws.3, mbrtowc.3, mbsnrtowcs.3, mbsrtowcs.3, mbstowcs.3, wcpcpy.3, wcpncpy.3, wcrtomb.3, wcscat.3, wcscpy.3, wcslen.3, wcsncat.3, wcsncmp.3, wcsncpy.3, wcsnlen.3, wcsnrtombs.3, wcsrtombs.3, wcsstr.3, wcstok.3, wcstombs.3, wcwidth.3: Global fix: consistent use of "null wide character"
Bring more consistency to the discussion of
"[terminating] null wide character"
by writing (at least in the initial use in a page)
"[terminating] null wide character (L'\0')".
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-09-28 03:46:39 +00:00
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terminating null wide character (L\(aq\\0\(aq).
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In this case the conversion ends in the initial state.
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The number of bytes written to \fIdest\fP,
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excluding the terminating null byte (\(aq\\0\(aq), is returned.
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.PP
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The programmer must ensure that there is room for at least \fIn\fP bytes
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at \fIdest\fP.
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.PP
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If \fIdest\fP is NULL, \fIn\fP is ignored, and the conversion proceeds as
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above, except that the converted bytes are not written out to memory,
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and that no length limit exists.
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.PP
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In order to avoid the case 2 above, the programmer should make sure \fIn\fP
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is greater or equal to \fIwcstombs(NULL,src,0)+1\fP.
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.SH "RETURN VALUE"
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The
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.BR wcstombs ()
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function returns the number of bytes that make up the
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converted part of multibyte sequence, not including the terminating null byte.
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If a wide character was encountered which could not be
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converted,
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.I (size_t)\ \-1
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is returned.
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.SH "CONFORMING TO"
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C99.
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.SH NOTES
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The behavior of
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.BR wcstombs ()
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depends on the
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.B LC_CTYPE
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category of the
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current locale.
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.PP
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The function
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.BR wcsrtombs (3)
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provides a thread safe interface to
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the same functionality.
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.BR mbstowcs (3),
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.BR wcsrtombs (3)
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