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								<title>ICONV</title>
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								<h1 align="center">ICONV</h1>
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								<a href="#NAME">NAME</a><br>
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								<a href="#SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a><br>
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								<a href="#DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a><br>
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								<a href="#RETURN VALUE">RETURN VALUE</a><br>
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								<a href="#ERRORS">ERRORS</a><br>
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								<a href="#CONFORMING TO">CONFORMING TO</a><br>
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								<a href="#SEE ALSO">SEE ALSO</a><br>
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								<h2>NAME
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								<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">iconv −
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								perform character set conversion</p>
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								<h2>SYNOPSIS
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								<a name="SYNOPSIS"></a>
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								<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>#include
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								<iconv.h></b></p>
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								<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>size_t iconv
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								(iconv_t</b> <i>cd</i><b>, <br>
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								const char* *</b> <i>inbuf</i><b>, size_t *</b>
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								<i>inbytesleft</i><b>, <br>
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								char* *</b> <i>outbuf</i><b>, size_t *</b>
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								<i>outbytesleft</i><b>);</b></p>
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								<h2>DESCRIPTION
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								<a name="DESCRIPTION"></a>
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								<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">The argument
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								<i>cd</i> must be a conversion descriptor created using the
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								function <b>iconv_open</b>.</p>
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								<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">The main case
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								is when <i>inbuf</i> is not NULL and <i>*inbuf</i> is not
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								NULL. In this case, the <b>iconv</b> function converts the
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								multibyte sequence starting at <i>*inbuf</i> to a multibyte
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								sequence starting at <i>*outbuf</i>. At most
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								<i>*inbytesleft</i> bytes, starting at <i>*inbuf</i>, will
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								be read. At most <i>*outbytesleft</i> bytes, starting at
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								<i>*outbuf</i>, will be written.</p>
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								<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">The
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								<b>iconv</b> function converts one multibyte character at a
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								time, and for each character conversion it increments
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								<i>*inbuf</i> and decrements <i>*inbytesleft</i> by the
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								number of converted input bytes, it increments
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								<i>*outbuf</i> and decrements <i>*outbytesleft</i> by the
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								number of converted output bytes, and it updates the
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								conversion state contained in <i>cd</i>. If the character
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								encoding of the input is stateful, the <b>iconv</b> function
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								can also convert a sequence of input bytes to an update of
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								the conversion state without producing any output bytes;
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								such input is called a <i>shift sequence</i>. The conversion
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								can stop for four reasons:</p>
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								<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">1. An invalid
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								multibyte sequence is encountered in the input. In this case
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								it sets <b>errno</b> to <b>EILSEQ</b> and returns
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								(size_t)(−1). <i>*inbuf</i> is left pointing to the
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								beginning of the invalid multibyte sequence.</p>
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								<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">2. The input
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								byte sequence has been entirely converted, i.e.
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								<i>*inbytesleft</i> has gone down to 0. In this case
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								<b>iconv</b> returns the number of non-reversible
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								conversions performed during this call.</p>
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								<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">3. An
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								incomplete multibyte sequence is encountered in the input,
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								and the input byte sequence terminates after it. In this
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								case it sets <b>errno</b> to <b>EINVAL</b> and returns
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								(size_t)(−1). <i>*inbuf</i> is left pointing to the
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								beginning of the incomplete multibyte sequence.</p>
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								<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">4. The output
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								buffer has no more room for the next converted character. In
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								this case it sets <b>errno</b> to <b>E2BIG</b> and returns
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								(size_t)(−1).</p>
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								<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">A different
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								case is when <i>inbuf</i> is NULL or <i>*inbuf</i> is NULL,
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								but <i>outbuf</i> is not NULL and <i>*outbuf</i> is not
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								NULL. In this case, the <b>iconv</b> function attempts to
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								set <i>cd</i>’s conversion state to the initial state
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								and store a corresponding shift sequence at <i>*outbuf</i>.
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								At most <i>*outbytesleft</i> bytes, starting at
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								<i>*outbuf</i>, will be written. If the output buffer has no
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								more room for this reset sequence, it sets <b>errno</b> to
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								<b>E2BIG</b> and returns (size_t)(−1). Otherwise it
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								increments <i>*outbuf</i> and decrements
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								<i>*outbytesleft</i> by the number of bytes written.</p>
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								when <i>inbuf</i> is NULL or <i>*inbuf</i> is NULL, and
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								<i>outbuf</i> is NULL or <i>*outbuf</i> is NULL. In this
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								case, the <b>iconv</b> function sets <i>cd</i>’s
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								conversion state to the initial state.</p>
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								<h2>RETURN VALUE
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								<a name="RETURN VALUE"></a>
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								<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">The
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								<b>iconv</b> function returns the number of characters
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								converted in a non-reversible way during this call;
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								reversible conversions are not counted. In case of error, it
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								sets <b>errno</b> and returns (size_t)(−1).</p>
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								<h2>ERRORS
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								<a name="ERRORS"></a>
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								<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">The following
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								errors can occur, among others:</p>
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								<p><b>E2BIG</b></p></td>
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								<p>There is not sufficient room at <i>*outbuf</i>.</p></td></tr>
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								<p><b>EILSEQ</b></p></td>
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								<p>An invalid multibyte sequence has been encountered in
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								the input.</p></td></tr>
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								<p>An incomplete multibyte sequence has been encountered in
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								the input.</p></td></tr>
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								<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">POSIX:2001</p>
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								<h2>SEE ALSO
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								<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>iconv_open</b>(3),
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								<b>iconvctl</b>(3) <b>iconv_close</b>(3)</p>
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