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mbtowc - convert a multibyte sequence to a wide character
Návod, kniha: Linux Programmer's Manual
#include <stdlib.h>
int mbtowc(wchar_t *pwc, const char *s, size_t n);
The main case for this function is when
s is not NULL and
pwc is
not NULL. In this case, the
mbtowc function inspects at most
n
bytes of the multibyte string starting at
s, extracts the next complete
multibyte character, converts it to a wide character and stores it at
*pwc. It updates an internal shift state only known to the mbtowc
function. If
s does not point to a '\0' byte, it returns the number of
bytes that were consumed from
s, otherwise it returns 0.
If the
n bytes starting at
s do not contain a complete multibyte
character, or if they contain an invalid multibyte sequence,
mbtowc
returns
-1. This can happen even if
n >=
MB_CUR_MAX,
if the multibyte string contains redundant shift sequences.
A different case is when
s is not NULL but
pwc is NULL. In this
case the
mbtowc function behaves as above, excepts that it does not
store the converted wide character in memory.
A third case is when
s is NULL. In this case,
pwc and
n are
ignored. The
mbtowc function resets the shift state, only known to this
function, to the initial state, and returns non-zero if the encoding has
non-trivial shift state, or zero if the encoding is stateless.
If
s is not NULL, the
mbtowc function returns the number of
consumed bytes starting at
s, or 0 if
s points to a null byte,
or -1 upon failure.
If
s is NULL, the
mbtowc function returns non-zero if the encoding
has non-trivial shift state, or zero if the encoding is stateless.
ISO/ANSI C, UNIX98
MB_CUR_MAX(3),
mbrtowc(3),
mbstowcs(3)
The behaviour of
mbtowc depends on the LC_CTYPE category of the current
locale.
This function is not multi-thread safe. The function
mbrtowc provides a
better interface to the same functionality.