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34 .Nd converts a multibyte character to a wide character
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42 .Fn mbtowc "wchar_t * restrict pwc" "const char * restrict s" "size_t n"
45 usually converts the multibyte character pointed to by
47 to a wide character, and stores it in the wchar_t object pointed to by
53 points to a valid character.
54 This function may inspect at most n bytes of the array beginning from
57 In state-dependent encodings,
59 may point to the special sequence bytes to change the shift-state.
60 Although such sequence bytes correspond to no individual
63 changes its own state by the sequence bytes and treats them
64 as if they are a part of the subsequence multibyte character.
72 need to form an entire multibyte character.
73 Otherwise, this function causes an error.
75 Calling any other functions in
77 never changes the internal state of
83 category of the current locale.
86 call causes the internal state of this function to be indeterminate.
92 category of the current locale.
94 There are special cases:
95 .Bl -tag -width 012345678901
98 initializes its own internal state to an initial state, and
99 determines whether the current encoding is state-dependent.
100 This function returns 0 if the encoding is state-independent,
104 is completely ignored.
107 executes the conversion as if
109 is non-null, but a result of the conversion is discarded.
114 bytes of the array pointed to by
116 never form a complete character.
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126 .Bl -tag -width 012345678901
129 points to a null byte
132 Number of bytes for the valid multibyte character pointed to by
134 There are no cases that the value returned is greater than
140 points to an invalid or an incomplete multibyte character.
145 to indicate the error.
154 .Bl -tag -width 0123456789
156 The current encoding is state-independent.
158 The current encoding is state-dependent.
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163 may cause an error in the following case:
167 points to an invalid or incomplete multibyte character.
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180 The restrict qualifier is added at