utf16_le_to_7bit(9)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for utf16_le_to_7bit(9) ✨. It naively converts a UTF-16LE string to 7-bit ASCII characters — that’s literally the whole gig, no cap 💅.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void utf16_le_to_7bit (const __le16 *in , unsigned int size , u8 *out );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• in — input UTF-16LE string 🌈
• size — size of the input string 💫
• out — output string ptr, should be capable to store size+1 characters 🫶

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So it converts size UTF16-LE symbols from the in string to 7-bit ASCII characters and stores them to out. Then it adds a trailing zero to the out array ⭐. That’s it, that’s the lore 💖.

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Kernel file ./block/partitions/efi.c and these iconic functions: efi_crc32(9), last_lba(9), is_pmbr_valid(9), read_lba(9), alloc_read_gpt_entries(9), alloc_read_gpt_header(9), is_gpt_valid(9), is_pte_valid(9), compare_gpts(9), find_valid_gpt(9), efi_partition(9) 👑

k bye bestie 🫶✨ — this utf16_le_to_7bit(9) page is signing off from source/version ./block/partitions, dated October 2026 💜🎀