NAME    [Toc]    [Back]

       wctomb - convert a wide character to a multibyte sequence

SYNOPSIS    [Toc]    [Back]

       #include <stdlib.h>

       int wctomb (char *s, wchar_t wc);

DESCRIPTION    [Toc]    [Back]

       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 only known to  the  wctomb  function,
 and returns the length of said multibyte representation, i.e. 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, 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    [Toc]    [Back]

       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 non-zero if the encoding has
       non-trivial shift state, or zero if the encoding is stateless.

CONFORMING TO    [Toc]    [Back]

       ISO/ANSI C, UNIX98

SEE ALSO    [Toc]    [Back]

       wcrtomb(3), wcstombs(3), MB_CUR_MAX(3)

NOTES    [Toc]    [Back]

       The behaviour of wctomb depends on the LC_CTYPE category of the current
       locale.

       This function is not multi-thread safe. The function wcrtomb provides a
       better interface to the same functionality.



GNU				  1999-07-25			     WCTOMB(3)