Whiz Kid Technomagic -- man page for sputu8 (libutf-8)

         #include <utf-8.h>

         char *
         sputu8(unsigned int c, char *buffer)

         char *
         utf8sputc(unsigned int c, char *buffer)

## DESCRIPTION

         The sputu8() function of utf-8 library converts a UTC-4 (31-bit Unicode)
         integer to a sequence of one or more characters representing its UTF-8
         value, and writes the result to a buffer (character string). It appends a
         NUL at the end of the buffer, so it can be processed as a standard C
         string.

         utf8sputc() is a macro which simply gives sputu8() a name that may be
         more convenient to remember. It is defined in <utf-8.h>.

         The sputu8() function and the utf8sputc() macro take two arguments: c,
         the UTC-4 code, and buffer, a pointer to a string of characters. The
         buffer must have at least seven bytes available for writing: UTF-8 en-
         codes Unicode into 1 - 6 characters, plus we need room for the terminat-
         ing NUL.

## RETURN VALUES

         sputu8() returns the pointer to the terminating NUL. This allows you to
         append the next sequence of characters without having to determine where
         the string ends after each call to sputu8().

         If buffer is NULL, sputu8() returns NULL. If c is not a valid UTC-4 code
         (i.e., its high bit is set), no conversion takes place, and sputu8() just
         returns buffer.

## SEE ALSO

         libutf-8(3),  fgetu8(3),  fputu8(3),  sgetu8(3)

         F. Yergeau, UTF-8, a transformation format of Unicode and ISO 10646,
         RFC2279.

         D. Goldsmith, M. Davis, Using Unicode with MIME, RFC1641.

## STANDARDS

         ISO 10646-1: 1993 (``Unicode''), RFC 2279: 1998 (``UTF-8''), ISO
         9899: 1990 (``ISO C'').

## DIAGNOSTICS

         You should always compare the RETURN VALUES to buffer. If they are NULL,
         no conversion took place. Otherwise, if they are identical, c was not a
         valid UTC-8 integer. Anything else indicates successful conversion.

## AUTHORS

         This manual page was written by G. Adam Stanislav <adam@whizkidtech.net>.

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