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Application Usage
None.
Copyright
Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard
for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base
Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition, Copyright (C) 2018 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
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IEEE/The Open Group 2017 BTOWC(3POSIX)
Description
The functionality described on this reference page is aligned with the ISO C standard. Any conflict
between the requirements described here and the ISO C standard is unintentional. This volume of
POSIX.1‐2017 defers to the ISO C standard.
The btowc() function shall determine whether c constitutes a valid (one-byte) character in the initial
shift state.
The behavior of this function shall be affected by the LC_CTYPE category of the current locale.
Errors
No errors are defined.
Thefollowingsectionsareinformative.Examples
None.
Future Directions
None.
Name
btowc — single byte to wide character conversion
Prolog
This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux implementation of this interface
may differ (consult the corresponding Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior), or the interface
may not be implemented on Linux.
Rationale
None.
Return Value
The btowc() function shall return WEOF if c has the value EOF or if (unsignedchar)c does not constitute
a valid (one-byte) character in the initial shift state. Otherwise, it shall return the wide-character
representation of that character.
In the POSIX locale, btowc() shall not return WEOF if c has a value in the range 0 to 255 inclusive.
See Also
wctob()
The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2017, <stdio.h>, <wchar.h>Synopsis
#include <stdio.h>
#include <wchar.h>
wint_t btowc(int c);
