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+.\" Copyright (c) 2002, 2003 Tim J. Robbins. All rights reserved.
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+.\" From @(#)multibyte.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
+.\" From FreeBSD: src/lib/libc/locale/multibyte.3,v 1.22 2003/11/08 03:23:11 tjr Exp
+.\" $FreeBSD$
+.\"
+.Dd November 19, 2003
+.Dt MBSTOWCS 3
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm mbstowcs
+.Nd convert a character string to a wide-character string
+.Sh LIBRARY
+.Lb libc
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.In stdlib.h
+.Ft size_t
+.Fn mbstowcs "wchar_t * restrict wcstring" "const char * restrict mbstring" "size_t nwchars"
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+The
+.Fn mbstowcs
+function converts a multibyte character string
+.Fa mbstring
+into a wide character string
+.Fa wcstring .
+No more than
+.Fa nwchars
+wide characters are stored.
+A terminating null wide character is appended if there is room.
+.Sh RETURN VALUES
+The
+.Fn mbstowcs
+function returns the number of wide characters converted,
+not counting any terminating null wide character, or \-1
+if an invalid multibyte character was encountered.
+.Sh ERRORS
+The
+.Fn mbstowcs
+function will fail if:
+.Bl -tag -width Er
+.\".It Bq Er EINVAL
+.\"Invalid argument.
+.It Bq Er EILSEQ
+An invalid multibyte sequence was detected.
+.El
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr mbtowc 3 ,
+.Xr mbsrtowcs 3
+.Sh STANDARDS
+The
+.Fn mbstowcs
+function conforms to
+.St -isoC .
+.Sh BUGS
+The current implementation does not support shift states.
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