gnutls_utf8_password_normalize(3)

gnutls_utf8_password_normalize3

Api function

Usage

#include <gnutls/gnutls.h>

int gnutls_utf8_password_normalize(const unsigned char * password, unsigned plen, gnutls_datum_t * out, unsigned flags);

Arguments

const unsigned char * password

contain the UTF-8 formatted password

unsigned plen

the length of the provided password

gnutls_datum_t * out

the result in an null-terminated allocated string

unsigned flags

should be zero

Overview

This function will convert the provided UTF-8 password according to the normalization rules in RFC7613.

If the flag GNUTLS_UTF8_IGNORE_ERRS is specified, any UTF-8 encoding errors will be ignored, and in that case the output will be a copy of the input.

Returns

GNUTLS_E_INVALID_UTF8_STRING on invalid UTF-8 data, or 0 on success.

Since

3.5.7

Releases

6 releases since Debian 9 (Stretch); the text changed 5 times.

  1. 9
  2. 10
  3. 11
  4. 12
  5. 13
  6. Arch

Reporting bugs

Report bugs to <[email protected]>.
Home page: https://www.gnutls.org

From gnutls 3.8.13-3 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.