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34 .Nd converts a wide character to a multibyte character (restartable)
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42 .Fn wcrtomb "char * restrict s" "wchar_t wc" "mbstate_t * restrict ps"
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46 converts the wide character given by
48 to the corresponding multibyte character, and stores it in the array
54 This function will modify the first at most
56 bytes of the array pointed to by
63 category of the current locale.
65 These are the special cases:
66 .Bl -tag -width 012345678901
68 For state-dependent encodings,
70 stores a null byte preceded by special byte sequence (if any)
71 to return to an initial state in the array pointed to by
73 and the state object pointed to by
75 also returns to an initial state.
81 It is equivalent to the following call:
82 .Bd -literal -offset indent
83 wcrtomb(buf, L'\\0', ps);
94 uses its own internal state object to keep the conversion state,
97 mentioned in this manual page.
99 Calling any other functions in
101 never changes the internal
104 which is initialized at startup time of the program.
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110 .Bl -tag -width 012345678901
112 The number of bytes (including any shift sequences)
113 which are stored in the array.
116 is not a valid wide character.
121 to indicate the error.
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126 may cause an error in the following case:
130 is not a valid wide character.
133 points to an invalid or uninitialized mbstate_t object.
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145 The restrict qualifier is added at