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16 Library introduction [library]
16.4 Method of description [description]
16.4.2 Other conventions [conventions]
16.4.2.2 Type descriptions [type.descriptions]
16.4.2.2.5 Character sequences [character.seq]
16.4.2.2.5.2 Multibyte strings [multibyte.strings]
A null-terminated multibyte string, or ntmbs, is an ntbs that constitutes a sequence of valid multibyte characters, beginning and ending in the initial shift state.161
A static ntmbsis an ntmbs with static storage duration.
An ntbs that contains characters only from the basic execution character set is also an ntmbs.
Each multibyte character then consists of a single byte.