mbstate_t

 

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Wide/multibyte conversions
mbsinit (C95)
mbtowc mbstowcsmbstowcs_s (C11) btowc (C95) mbrtowc (C95) mbsrtowcsmbsrtowcs_s (C95)(C11) mbrtoc16 (C11) c16rtomb (C11) c32rtomb (C11) mbrtoc32 (C11)	mblen wctombwctomb_s (C11) wcstombswcstombs_s (C11) wctob (C95) wcrtombwcrtomb_s (C95)(C11) wcsrtombswcsrtombs_s (C95)(C11) mbrlen (C95)
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mbstate_t (C95)

 

Defined in header <uchar.h>		(since C11)
Defined in header <wchar.h>
struct mbstate_t;		(since C95)

The type mbstate_t is a trivial non-array type that can represent any of the conversion states that can occur in an implementation-defined set of supported multibyte character encoding rules. Zero-initialized value of mbstate_t represents the initial conversion state, although other values of mbstate_t may exist that also represent the initial conversion state.

Possible implementation of mbstate_t is a struct type holding an array representing the incomplete multibyte character, an integer counter indicating the number of bytes in the array that have been processed, and a representation of the current shift state.

The following functions should not be called from multiple threads without synchronization with the mbstate_t* argument of NULL due to possible data races: mbrlen, mbrtowc, mbsrtowcs, mbtowc, wcrtomb, wcsrtombs, wctomb.

References

• C11 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:2011):

• 7.29.1/2 Introduction (p: 402)

• C99 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:1999):

• 7.24.1/2 Introduction (p: 348)

See also

mbsinit (C95)	checks if the mbstate_t object represents initial shift state (function)
C++ documentation for mbstate_t