WCTOMB(3)                           Linux Programmer's Manual                           WCTOMB(3)



NAME
       wctomb - convert a wide character to a multibyte sequence

SYNOPSIS
       #include <stdlib.h>

       int wctomb(char *s, wchar_t wc);

DESCRIPTION
       If  s  is  not NULL, the wctomb() function converts the wide character wc to its multibyte
       representation and stores it at the beginning of the character array pointed to by s.   It
       updates  the shift state, which is stored in a static anonymous variable known only to the
       wctomb() function, and returns the length of said multibyte representation, that  is,  the
       number of bytes written at s.

       The programmer must ensure that there is room for at least MB_CUR_MAX bytes at s.

       If  s  is NULL, the wctomb() function resets the shift state, known only to this function,
       to the initial state, and returns nonzero if the encoding has nontrivial shift  state,  or
       zero if the encoding is stateless.

RETURN VALUE
       If s is not NULL, the wctomb() function returns the number of bytes that have been written
       to the byte array at s.  If wc can not be represented as a multibyte  sequence  (according
       to the current locale), -1 is returned.

       If  s  is NULL, the wctomb() function returns nonzero if the encoding has nontrivial shift
       state, or zero if the encoding is stateless.

CONFORMING TO
       C99.

NOTES
       The behavior of wctomb() depends on the LC_CTYPE category of the current locale.

       This function is not multithread safe.  The function wcrtomb(3) provides a  better  inter-
       face to the same functionality.

SEE ALSO
       MB_CUR_MAX(3), wcrtomb(3), wcstombs(3)

COLOPHON
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GNU                                         1999-07-25                                  WCTOMB(3)