mbtowc(3) -- Linux man page
NAME
mbtowc - convert a multibyte sequence to a wide character
SYNOPSIS
#include <stdlib.h>
int mbtowc(wchar_t *pwc, const char *s, size_t n);
DESCRIPTION
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.
RETURN VALUE
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.
CONFORMING TO
ISO/ANSI C, UNIX98
SEE ALSO
mbrtowc(3),
mbstowcs(3),
MB_CUR_MAX(3)
NOTES
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.
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