10.71.11 mbrlen ¶
POSIX specification:
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/functions/mbrlen.html
Gnulib module: mbrlen
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
- This function is missing on some platforms:
Minix 3.1.8, HP-UX 11.00, mingw.
- In the C or POSIX locales, this function can return
(size_t) -1
and set errno to EILSEQ:
glibc 2.35.
- This function returns 0 instead of
(size_t) -2 when the input
is empty:
glibc 2.19.
- This function returns
(size_t) -1 instead of (size_t) -2
when the input is empty:
AIX 5.1.
- This function does not put the state into non-initial state when parsing an
incomplete multibyte character on some platforms:
AIX 5.1.
- This function returns the total number of bytes that make up the multibyte
character, not the number of bytes that were needed to complete the multibyte
character, on some platforms:
HP-UX 11.11, Solaris 11 2010-11.
- This function may not return 0 when parsing the NUL character on some platforms:
Solaris 9.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: