WCTOMB

Section: Linux Programmer's Manual (3)
Updated: March 29, 1993
 

NAME

wctomb - convert a wide character to a multibyte character.  

SYNOPSIS

#include <stdlib.h>

int wctomb(char *s, wchar_t wchar);
 

DESCRIPTION

The wctomb() function converts a wide character wchar into a multibyte character and, if s is not NULL, stores the multibyte character representation in s.  

RETURN VALUE

wctomb() returns the number of bytes in the multibyte character or -1 if the wide character is not valid.  

CONFORMING TO

SVID 3, ISO 9899  

SEE ALSO

mblen(3), mbstowcs(3), mbtowc(3), wcstombs(3)