Locale-Sensitive Multibyte Length Functions

Internationalization (I18n) Issue:

These functions operate upon multibyte characters of type char *. They test multibyte characters in various ways including conversions between upper and lower case. These functions often replace single character manipulation functions as a result of internationalization reengineering. To operate correctly, the underlying char * type must be properly implemented.

I18n Solution:

Use the appropriate equivalent multibyte character manipulation function when reengineering an application for internationalization.

I18n Discussion:

A multibyte character is a sequence of one or more bytes. An example of a multibyte character set is given at UTF-8. Such character sets will alternate between single and multiple bytes to encode each character. These multibyte functions work with the character set of the platform. This category of multibyte functions will appropriately handle the switching between singlebyte and multibyte characters within a given character stream. When performing initial internationalization engineering, wide character manipulation functions are preferable to these multibyte functions.

To convert between wide characters and multibyte characters, please see the Multibyte to Wide Character Conversion Functions.

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_mbsnbcat/_mbsncat

_mbsnbcnt/_mbsnccnt

_mbsnbcpy/_mbsncpy

_mbsnbset/_mbsnset

_mbsnlen/_mbstrnlen

_mbsnlen_l/_mbstrnlen_l

 Locale-Sensitive C++ Methods