- ENCODING, according to FORMAT. Stores the parsed
- representation in OUTPUT, which the caller must have
- initialized with the given WIDTH (0 for a numeric field,
- otherwise the string width).
- Iff FORMAT is a string format, then DICT must be a pointer
- to the dictionary associated with OUTPUT. Otherwise, DICT
- may be null. */
+ INPUT_ENCODING, according to FORMAT.
+
+ Stores the parsed representation in OUTPUT, which the caller must have
+ initialized with the given WIDTH (0 for a numeric field, otherwise the
+ string width). If FORMAT is FMT_A, then OUTPUT_ENCODING must specify the
+ correct encoding for OUTPUT (normally obtained via dict_get_encoding()). */