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wcrtomb(3C) wcrtomb(3C)

NAME

wcrtomb() - convert a wide-character code to a character (restartable)

SYNOPSIS

#include <wchar.h>

size_t wcrtomb(char *s, wchar_t wc, mbstate_t *ps);

DESCRIPTION

If s is a null pointer, the wcrtomb()

function is equivalent to the call:

wcrtomb(buf, L’\0’, ps)

where buf is an internal buffer.

If s is not a null pointer, the

wcrtomb() function determines the number of bytes needed to represent the

character that corresponds to the wide-character given by wc (including any shift sequences), and stores the

resulting bytes in the array whose ﬁrst element is pointed to by s. At most

MB_CUR_MAX bytes are stored.

If wc is a null wide-character, a null byte is stored, preceded by any shift sequence needed to restore the

initial shift state. The resulting state described is the initial conversion state.

If ps is a null pointer, the

wcrtomb() function uses its own internal mbstate_t object, which is initial-

ized at program startup to the initial conversion state. Otherwise, the

mbstate_t object pointed to by ps

is used to completely describe the current conversion state of the associated character sequence. The

implementation will behave as if no function deﬁned in this speciﬁcation calls

wcrtomb().

EXTERNAL INFLUENCES

locale

The behavior of this function is affected by the

LC_CTYPE category of the current locale.

RETURN VALUE

The wcrtomb() function returns the number of bytes stored in the array object (including any shift

sequences). When wc is not a valid wide-character, an encoding error occurs. In this case, the function

stores the value of the macros EILSEQ in errno and returns (size_t)-1; the conversion state is undeﬁned.

ERRORS

The

wcrtomb() function may fail if:

[EINVAL] ps points to an object that contains an invalid conversion state.

[EILSEQ] Invalid wide-character code is detected.

AUTHOR

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