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.\" OpenGroup's Single UNIX specification http://www.UNIX-systems.org/online.html
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.\" ISO/IEC 9899:1999
.\"
.TH BTOWC 3 2011-09-22 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
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.SH NAME
btowc \- convert single byte to wide character
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
.B #include <wchar.h>
.sp
.BI "wint_t btowc(int " c );
.fi
.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.BR btowc ()
function converts \fIc\fP,
interpreted as a multibyte sequence
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of length 1, starting in the initial shift state, to a wide character and
returns it.
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If \fIc\fP is
.B EOF
or not a valid multibyte sequence of length 1,
the
.BR btowc ()
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function returns
.BR WEOF .
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.SH "RETURN VALUE"
The
.BR btowc ()
function returns the wide character
converted from the single byte \fIc\fP.
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If \fIc\fP is
.B EOF
or not a valid multibyte sequence of length 1,
it returns
.BR WEOF .
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.SH "CONFORMING TO"
C99, POSIX.1-2001.
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.SH NOTES
The behavior of
.BR btowc ()
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depends on the
.B LC_CTYPE
category of the
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current locale.
.PP
This function should never be used.
It does not work for encodings which have
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state, and unnecessarily treats single bytes differently from multibyte
sequences.
Use either
.BR mbtowc (3)
or the thread-safe
.BR mbrtowc (3)
instead.
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR mbrtowc (3),
.BR mbtowc (3),
.BR wctob (3)