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-.TH WCSNRTOMBS 3 2011-10-01 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH WCSNRTOMBS 3 2011-10-16 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
wcsnrtombs \- convert a wide-character string to a multibyte string
.SH SYNOPSIS
terminating null wide character (which has the side effect of bringing back \fI*ps\fP
to the initial state).
In this case \fI*src\fP is set to NULL, and the number
-of bytes written to \fIdest\fP, excluding the terminating null, is
+of bytes written to \fIdest\fP,
+excluding the terminating null byte (\(aq\\0\(aq), is
returned.
.PP
If \fIdest\fP is NULL, \fIlen\fP is ignored,
function returns
the number of bytes that make up the
converted part of multibyte sequence,
-not including the terminating null.
+not including the terminating null byte.
If a wide character was encountered which
could not be converted,
.I (size_t)\ \-1