mbrtowc.3c (2010 09)

mbrtowc(3C) mbrtowc(3C)

Reference Manual) not be used, and that wide character code values not be stored in ﬁles or devices

because future standards may dictate changes in the code value assignments of the wide characters.

However, wide character constants and wide string literals corresponding to the characters of the ASCII

code set can be safely used since their values are guaranteed to be the same as their ASCII code set

values.

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mbrtowc() was developed by HP and Mitsubishi Electric Corporation.