@node mbsinit
@subsection @code{mbsinit}
@findex mbsinit

POSIX specification:@* @url{https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/functions/mbsinit.html}

Gnulib module: mbsinit
@mindex mbsinit

Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
@item
This function is missing on some platforms:
Minix 3.1.8, HP-UX 11.00, MSVC 14.
@item
This function always returns 1, even in multibyte locales, on some platforms:
mingw.
@end itemize

Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
@item
@c https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=272218
This function is not useful after calls to @code{mbrtoc16} or @code{mbrtoc8}.
@end itemize
