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MBLEN(3) Linux Programmer's Manual MBLEN(3)
mblen - determine number of bytes in next multibyte character
#include <stdlib.h>
int mblen(const char *s, size_t n);
If s is not NULL, the mblen() function inspects at most n bytes
of the multibyte string starting at s and extracts the next
complete multibyte character. It uses a static anonymous shift
state known only to the mblen() function. If the multibyte
character is not the null wide character, it returns the number
of bytes that were consumed from s. If the multibyte character
is the null wide character, it returns 0.
If the n bytes starting at s do not contain a complete multibyte
character, mblen() returns -1. This can happen even if n is
greater than or equal to MB_CUR_MAX, if the multibyte string
contains redundant shift sequences.
If the multibyte string starting at s contains an invalid
multibyte sequence before the next complete character, mblen()
also returns -1.
If s is NULL, the mblen() function resets the shift state, known
to only this function, to the initial state, and returns nonzero
if the encoding has nontrivial shift state, or zero if the
encoding is stateless.
The mblen() function returns the number of bytes parsed from the
multibyte sequence starting at s, if a non-null wide character
was recognized. It returns 0, if a null wide character was
recognized. It returns -1, if an invalid multibyte sequence was
encountered or if it couldn't parse a complete multibyte
character.
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see
attributes(7).
┌──────────┬───────────────┬────────────────┐
│Interface │ Attribute │ Value │
├──────────┼───────────────┼────────────────┤
│mblen() │ Thread safety │ MT-Unsafe race │
└──────────┴───────────────┴────────────────┘
POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008, C99.
The behavior of mblen() depends on the LC_CTYPE category of the
current locale.
The function mbrlen(3) provides a better interface to the same
functionality.
mbrlen(3)
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GNU 2015-08-08 MBLEN(3)
Pages that refer to this page: MB_CUR_MAX(3), mbstowcs(3), mbtowc(3), wcstombs(3), wctomb(3), locale(7)
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