punycode_strerror(3)

punycode_strerror3

Api function

Usage

#include <punycode.h>

const char * punycode_strerror(Punycode_status rc);

Arguments

Punycode_status rc

an Punycode_status return code.

Overview

Convert a return code integer to a text string. This string can be used to output a diagnostic message to the user.

Punycode_success

Successful operation. This value is guaranteed to always be zero, the remaining ones are only guaranteed to hold non-zero values, for logical comparison purposes.

Punycode_bad_input

Input is invalid.

Punycode_big_output

Output would exceed the space provided.

Punycode_overflow

Input needs wider integers to process.

Return value: Returns a pointer to a statically allocated string containing a description of the error with the return code rc .

Releases

11 releases since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); the text changed 8 times.

  1. 3.1
  2. 4.0
  3. 5.0
  4. 6.0
  5. 7
  6. 9–11
  7. 12
  8. 13
  9. Arch

Reporting bugs

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General guidelines for reporting bugs: https://www.gnu.org/gethelp/
GNU Libidn home page: https://www.gnu.org/software/libidn/

From libidn 1.44-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.