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MBTOWC(3P)              POSIX Programmer's Manual             MBTOWC(3P)

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       This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual.  The
       Linux implementation of this interface may differ (consult the
       corresponding Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior),
       or the interface may not be implemented on Linux.

NAME         top

       mbtowc — convert a character to a wide-character code

SYNOPSIS         top

       #include <stdlib.h>

       int mbtowc(wchar_t *restrict pwc, const char *restrict s, size_t n);

DESCRIPTION         top

       The functionality described on this reference page is aligned
       with the ISO C standard. Any conflict between the requirements
       described here and the ISO C standard is unintentional. This
       volume of POSIX.1‐2017 defers to the ISO C standard.

       If s is not a null pointer, mbtowc() shall determine the number
       of bytes that constitute the character pointed to by s.  It shall
       then determine the wide-character code for the value of type
       wchar_t that corresponds to that character. (The value of the
       wide-character code corresponding to the null byte is 0.) If the
       character is valid and pwc is not a null pointer, mbtowc() shall
       store the wide-character code in the object pointed to by pwc.

       The behavior of this function is affected by the LC_CTYPE
       category of the current locale. For a state-dependent encoding,
       this function is placed into its initial state by a call for
       which its character pointer argument, s, is a null pointer.
       Subsequent calls with s as other than a null pointer shall cause
       the internal state of the function to be altered as necessary. A
       call with s as a null pointer shall cause this function to return
       a non-zero value if encodings have state dependency, and 0
       otherwise. If the implementation employs special bytes to change
       the shift state, these bytes shall not produce separate wide-
       character codes, but shall be grouped with an adjacent character.
       Changing the LC_CTYPE category causes the shift state of this
       function to be unspecified. At most n bytes of the array pointed
       to by s shall be examined.

       The implementation shall behave as if no function defined in this
       volume of POSIX.1‐2017 calls mbtowc().

       The mbtowc() function need not be thread-safe.

RETURN VALUE         top

       If s is a null pointer, mbtowc() shall return a non-zero or 0
       value, if character encodings, respectively, do or do not have
       state-dependent encodings. If s is not a null pointer, mbtowc()
       shall either return 0 (if s points to the null byte), or return
       the number of bytes that constitute the converted character (if
       the next n or fewer bytes form a valid character), or return -1
       and shall set errno to indicate the error (if they do not form a
       valid character).

       In no case shall the value returned be greater than n or the
       value of the {MB_CUR_MAX} macro.

ERRORS         top

       The mbtowc() function shall fail if:

       EILSEQ An invalid character sequence is detected. In the POSIX
              locale an [EILSEQ] error cannot occur since all byte
              values are valid characters.

       The following sections are informative.

EXAMPLES         top

       None.

APPLICATION USAGE         top

       None.

RATIONALE         top

       None.

FUTURE DIRECTIONS         top

       None.

SEE ALSO         top

       mblen(3p), mbstowcs(3p), wctomb(3p), wcstombs(3p)

       The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2017, stdlib.h(0p)

COPYRIGHT         top

       Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic
       form from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard for Information
       Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The
       Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition, Copyright
       (C) 2018 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
       Engineers, Inc and The Open Group.  In the event of any
       discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The
       Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group
       Standard is the referee document. The original Standard can be
       obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .

       Any typographical or formatting errors that appear in this page
       are most likely to have been introduced during the conversion of
       the source files to man page format. To report such errors, see
       https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html .

IEEE/The Open Group               2017                        MBTOWC(3P)

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