NAME

       mconv_encode_buffer - Encode an M-text into a buffer area.

SYNOPSIS

       int mconv_encode_buffer (MSymbol name, MText * mt, unsigned char * buf, int n)

DESCRIPTION

       Encode an M-text into a buffer area. The mconv_encode_buffer() function encodes M-text mt
       based on coding system name and writes the resulting byte sequence into the buffer area
       pointed to by buf.  At most n bytes are written. A temporary code converter for encoding
       is automatically created and freed.

RETURN VALUE

           If the operation was successful, mconv_encode_buffer() returns the number of written
           bytes. Otherwise it returns -1 and assigns an error code to the external variable
           merror_code.

ERRORS

           MERROR_IO, MERROR_CODING

SEE ALSO

           mconv_encode(), mconv_encode_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>.