9.545 mbrlen
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/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, IRIX 6.5, Solaris 2.6, mingw, Interix 3.5.
- 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, OSF/1 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: