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| author | tjr <tjr@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-09-18 06:11:21 +0000 |
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| committer | tjr <tjr@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-09-18 06:11:21 +0000 |
| commit | 7eb8c7cf9aa4aa5eb76d14d7b7b0778c3bdb95cc (patch) | |
| tree | 999249bafd16b28b7b2f1c9a370b7e35ec7a53bb /lib/libc/locale/mbrune.3 | |
| parent | 5bb288ec923336fc582dae1b5ee61a4965037b5f (diff) | |
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Mark mbmb(), mbrune(), and mbrrune() as deprecated functions. We want to
get applications to move to the ISO C interfaces as well as have the
freedom to replace the rune interfaces with ones that support stateful
conversions some time in the future.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/locale/mbrune.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/locale/mbrune.3 | 16 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/locale/mbrune.3 b/lib/libc/locale/mbrune.3 index 7228f7a..8e0aa08 100644 --- a/lib/libc/locale/mbrune.3 +++ b/lib/libc/locale/mbrune.3 @@ -54,6 +54,22 @@ .Ft char * .Fn mbmb "const char *string" "char *pattern" .Sh DESCRIPTION +.Bf Em +The +.Bx 4.4 +.Dq rune +functions have been deprecated in favour of the +.Tn ISO +C99 extended multibyte and wide character facilities +and should not be used in new applications. +.Ef +Consider working with wide characters instead, and using +.Xr wcschr 3 , +.Xr wcsrchr 3 , +and +.Xr wcsstr 3 +instead of these functions. +.Pp These routines provide the corresponding functionality of .Fn strchr , .Fn strrchr |
