mblen
[minimal multibyte
length function]
SYNOPSIS
#include<stdlib.h>
int mblen(const char *s, size_t
n);
DESCRIPTION
When MB_CAPABLE
is not defined, this is a minimal ANSI-conforming implementation of mblen.
In this case, the only multibyte character sequences recognized are single
bytes, and thus 1 is returned unless s
is the null pointer, has a length of 0, or is the empty string.
When MB_CAPABLE is defined, this routine calls _mbtowc_r to perform the conversion, passing a state variable to allow state dependent decoding. The result is based on the locale setting which may be restricted to a defined set of locales.
RETURNS
This implementation
of mblen returns 0 if s is NULL or the empty string; it returns 1 if not
MB_CAPABLE
or the character is a single-byte character; it returns -1
if the multibyte character is invalid; otherwise, it returns the number
of bytes in the multibyte character.
COMPLIANCE
mblen
is required in the ANSI C standard. However, the precise effects vary with
the locale.
mblen requires no supporting OS subroutines.