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.TH BTOWC 3 2009-02-04 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.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
of length 1, starting in the initial shift state, to a wide character and
returns it.
If \fIc\fP is
.B EOF
or not a valid multibyte sequence of length 1,
the
.BR btowc ()
function returns
.BR WEOF .
.SH "RETURN VALUE"
The
.BR btowc ()
function returns the wide character
converted from the single byte \fIc\fP.
If \fIc\fP is
.B EOF
or not a valid multibyte sequence of length 1,
it returns
.BR WEOF .
.SH "CONFORMING TO"
C99, POSIX.1-2001.
.SH NOTES
The behavior of
.BR btowc ()
depends on the
.B LC_CTYPE
category of the
current locale.
.PP
This function should never be used.
It does not work for encodings which have
state, and unnecessarily treats single bytes differently from multibyte
sequences.
Use the function
.BR mbtowc ()
instead.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR wctob (3),
.BR mbtowc (3)
.SH COLOPHON
This page is part of release 3.22 of the Linux
.I man-pages
project.
A description of the project,
and information about reporting bugs,
can be found at
http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.
