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Return a human‐readable description of the specified error status.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bdlde_utf8checkinginstreambufwrapper.h>`

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static
char const*
toAscii(int errorStatus);
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== Description

Return a description of the specified `errorStatus`. Note that `errorStatus` is either: * `k_SEEK_FAIL` * A value from `Utf8Util::ErrorStatus`, which are all negative, in the case of invalid UTF‐8. * 0 if no errors have occurred, in which case `NO_ERROR` will be returned. Note that this includes the case where end of file has been reached without any error occurring. * If `errorStatus` is an invalid value, "(* unrecognized value *)" will be returned.

== Return Value

a null‐terminated description of `errorStatus`

== Parameters

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| Name| Description
| *errorStatus*
| error code to describe (0, `k_SEEK_FAIL`, or a `Utf8Util::ErrorStatus` value)
|===


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