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diff --git a/man3/mbtowc.3 b/man3/mbtowc.3 index 4934e8d2..04a09837 100644 --- a/man3/mbtowc.3 +++ b/man3/mbtowc.3 @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ mbtowc \- convert a multibyte sequence to a wide character .fi .SH DESCRIPTION The main case for this function is when \fIs\fP is not NULL and \fIpwc\fP is -not NULL. In this case, the \fBmbtowc\fP function inspects at most \fIn\fP +not NULL. In this case, the \fBmbtowc\fP() function inspects at most \fIn\fP bytes of the multibyte string starting at \fIs\fP, extracts the next complete multibyte character, converts it to a wide character and stores it at \fI*pwc\fP. It updates an internal shift state only known to the mbtowc @@ -30,27 +30,27 @@ function. If \fIs\fP does not point to a '\\0' byte, it returns the number of bytes that were consumed from \fIs\fP, otherwise it returns 0. .PP If the \fIn\fP bytes starting at \fIs\fP do not contain a complete multibyte -character, or if they contain an invalid multibyte sequence, \fBmbtowc\fP +character, or if they contain an invalid multibyte sequence, \fBmbtowc\fP() returns \fI-1\fP. This can happen even if \fIn\fP >= \fIMB_CUR_MAX\fP, if the multibyte string contains redundant shift sequences. .PP A different case is when \fIs\fP is not NULL but \fIpwc\fP is NULL. In this -case the \fBmbtowc\fP function behaves as above, excepts that it does not +case the \fBmbtowc\fP() function behaves as above, excepts that it does not store the converted wide character in memory. .PP A third case is when \fIs\fP is NULL. In this case, \fIpwc\fP and \fIn\fP are -ignored. The \fBmbtowc\fP function +ignored. The \fBmbtowc\fP() function .\" The Dinkumware doc and the Single Unix specification say this, but .\" glibc doesn't implement this. resets the shift state, only known to this function, to the initial state, and returns non-zero if the encoding has non-trivial shift state, or zero if the encoding is stateless. .SH "RETURN VALUE" -If \fIs\fP is not NULL, the \fBmbtowc\fP function returns the number of +If \fIs\fP is not NULL, the \fBmbtowc\fP() function returns the number of consumed bytes starting at \fIs\fP, or 0 if \fIs\fP points to a null byte, or \-1 upon failure. .PP -If \fIs\fP is NULL, the \fBmbtowc\fP function returns non-zero if the encoding +If \fIs\fP is NULL, the \fBmbtowc\fP() function returns non-zero if the encoding has non-trivial shift state, or zero if the encoding is stateless. .SH "CONFORMING TO" ISO/ANSI C, UNIX98 @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ ISO/ANSI C, UNIX98 .BR mbrtowc (3), .BR mbstowcs (3) .SH NOTES -The behaviour of \fBmbtowc\fP depends on the LC_CTYPE category of the +The behaviour of \fBmbtowc\fP() depends on the LC_CTYPE category of the current locale. .PP This function is not multi-thread safe. The function \fBmbrtowc\fP provides |