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Character Set Handling
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   Character sets used in the early days of computing had only six,
seven, or eight bits for each character: there was never a case where
more than eight bits (one byte) were used to represent a single
character.  The limitations of this approach became more apparent as
more people grappled with non-Roman character sets, where not all the
characters that make up a language's character set can be represented
by 2^8 choices.  This chapter shows the functionality that was added to
the C library to support multiple character sets.

Extended Char Intro

Introduction to Extended Characters.

Charset Function Overview

Overview about Character Handling

Functions.

Restartable multibyte conversion

Restartable multibyte conversion

Functions.

Non-reentrant Conversion

Non-reentrant Conversion Function.

Generic Charset Conversion

Generic Charset Conversion.