NAME

       mconv_decode_buffer - Decode a buffer area based on a coding system.

SYNOPSIS

       MText* mconv_decode_buffer (MSymbol name, const unsigned char * buf, int n)

DESCRIPTION

       Decode a buffer area based on a coding system. The mconv_decode_buffer() function decodes
       n bytes of the buffer area pointed to by buf based on the coding system name.  A temporary
       code converter for decoding is automatically created and freed.

RETURN VALUE

           If the operation was successful, mconv_decode_buffer() returns the resulting M-text.
           Otherwise it returns NULL and assigns an error code to the external variable
           merror_code.

ERRORS

           MERROR_IO, MERROR_CODING

SEE ALSO

           mconv_decode(), mconv_decode_stream()

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2001 Information-technology Promotion Agency (IPA)
       Copyright (C) 2001-2011 National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
       (AIST)
       Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of
       the GNU Free Documentation License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html>.