On 24 December 2015 at 20:23, Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> wrote: >> I'm trying to read the libc manual closely and, actually, it's >> probably not necessary: >> >> If all input from the input buffer is successfully converted and >> stored in the output buffer, the function returns the number of >> non-reversible conversions performed. In all other cases the >> return value is `(size_t) -1' and `errno' is set appropriately. >> >> So if there's one character held back waiting for a following >> combining character, there won't be a positive return value indicating >> success. > > The manual is inaccurate. It shouldn't say "and stored in the output > buffer", or at least clarify that the last character is sometimes not > stored until the flushing call.
I raised a bug for the manual here: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19404
