WCTOB(3)                                            Linux Programmer's Manual                                           WCTOB(3)



NAME
       wctob - try to represent a wide character as a single byte

SYNOPSIS
       #include <wchar.h>

       int wctob(wint_t c);

DESCRIPTION
       The  wctob()  function tests whether the multibyte representation of the wide character c, starting in the initial state,
       consists of a single byte.  If so, it is returned as an unsigned char.

       Never use this function.  It cannot help you in writing  internationalized  programs.   Internationalized  programs  must
       never distinguish single-byte and multibyte characters.

RETURN VALUE
       The wctob() function returns the single-byte representation of c, if it exists, of EOF otherwise.

CONFORMING TO
       C99.

NOTES
       The behavior of wctob() depends on the LC_CTYPE category of the current locale.

       This  function should never be used.  Internationalized programs must never distinguish single-byte and multibyte charac-
       ters.  Use the function wctomb(3) instead.

SEE ALSO
       btowc(3), wctomb(3)

COLOPHON
       This page is part of release 3.25 of the Linux man-pages project.  A description of the project,  and  information  about
       reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.



GNU                                                        2009-02-04                                                   WCTOB(3)