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16 .TH WCTOB 3 2011-09-22 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
18 wctob \- try to represent a wide character as a single byte
23 .BI "int wctob(wint_t " c );
28 function tests whether
29 the multibyte representation of the
30 wide character \fIc\fP, starting in the initial state, consists of a single
32 If so, it is returned as an
35 Never use this function.
36 It cannot help you in writing internationalized
38 Internationalized programs must never distinguish single-byte and
43 function returns the single-byte representation of \fIc\fP,
44 if it exists, of \fBEOF\fP otherwise.
55 This function should never be used.
56 Internationalized programs must never
57 distinguish single-byte and multibyte characters.