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MBLEN(3)		   Linux Programmer's Manual		      MBLEN(3)

NAME
       mblen - determine number of bytes in next multibyte character

SYNOPSIS
       #include <stdlib.h>

       int mblen(const char *s, size_t n);

DESCRIPTION
       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	 char‐
       acter,  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	state‐
       less.

RETURN VALUE
       The mblen() function returns the number of bytes parsed from the multi‐
       byte sequence starting at s, if a non-null wide	character  was	recog‐
       nized.	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.

ATTRIBUTES
   Multithreading (see pthreads(7))
       The mblen() function is not thread-safe.

CONFORMING TO
       C99.

NOTES
       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	 func‐
       tionality.

SEE ALSO
       mbrlen(3)

COLOPHON
       This  page  is  part of release 3.65 of the Linux man-pages project.  A
       description of the project, and information about reporting  bugs,  can
       be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.

GNU				  2013-06-21			      MBLEN(3)
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