centos man page for mbsinit

MBSINIT(3P)						     POSIX Programmer's Manual						       MBSINIT(3P)

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NAME
       mbsinit - determine conversion object status

SYNOPSIS
       #include <wchar.h>

       int mbsinit(const mbstate_t *ps);

DESCRIPTION
       If ps is not a null pointer, the mbsinit() function shall determine whether the object pointed to by ps	describes  an  initial	conversion
       state.

RETURN VALUE
       The  mbsinit()  function  shall return non-zero if ps is a null pointer, or if the pointed-to object describes an initial conversion state;
       otherwise, it shall return zero.

       If an mbstate_t object is altered by any of the functions described as "restartable", and is then used with a different character sequence,
       or  in  the other conversion direction, or with a different LC_CTYPE category setting than on earlier function calls, the behavior is unde-
       fined.

ERRORS
       No errors are defined.

       The following sections are informative.

EXAMPLES
       None.

APPLICATION USAGE
       The mbstate_t object is used to describe the current conversion state from a particular character sequence to a wide-character sequence (or
       vice versa) under the rules of a particular setting of the LC_CTYPE category of the current locale.

       The initial conversion state corresponds, for a conversion in either direction, to the beginning of a new character sequence in the initial
       shift state. A zero valued mbstate_t object is at least one way to describe an initial conversion state. A zero valued mbstate_t object can
       be used to initiate conversion involving any character sequence, in any LC_CTYPE category setting.

RATIONALE
       None.

FUTURE DIRECTIONS
       None.

SEE ALSO
       mbrlen(), mbrtowc(), wcrtomb(), mbsrtowcs(), wcsrtombs(), the Base Definitions volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, <wchar.h>

COPYRIGHT
       Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2003 Edition, Standard for Information Technol-
       ogy -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6, Copyright (C) 2001-2003 by the Institute of
       Electrical  and	Electronics  Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. In the event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE
       and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original Standard can  be  obtained
       online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .

IEEE
/The Open Group						       2003							       MBSINIT(3P)