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Updated: Wednesday, July 27, 2022
 
 

wctob(3C)

Name

wctob - wide-character to single-byte conversion

Synopsis

#include <stdio.h>
#include <wchar.h>

int wctob(wint_t c);

Description

The wctob() function determines whether c corresponds to a member of the extended character set whose character representation is a single byte when in the initial shift state.

The behavior of this function is affected by the LC_CTYPE category of the current locale. See environ(7)

Return Values

The wctob() function returns EOF if c does not correspond to a character with length one in the initial shift state. Otherwise, it returns the single-byte representation of that character.

Errors

No errors are defined.

Attributes

See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE
ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Interface Stability
Committed
MT-Level
MT-Safe
Standard

See Also

btowc(3C), setlocale(3C), attributes(7), environ(7), standards(7)