HP-UX Reference (11i v3 07/02) - 3 Library Functions A-M (vol 6)

mbrtowc(3C) mbrtowc(3C)

the future. It is recommended that wide character constants and wide string literals (see the C 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 char-

acter 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.

AUTHOR

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