mbrtowc(3) Library Functions Manual mbrtowc(3) mbrtowc - LIBRARY Standard C library (libc, -lc) #include size_t mbrtowc(wchar_t *restrict pwc, const char s[restrict .n], size_t n, mbstate_t *restrict ps); The main case for this function is when s is not NULL and pwc is not NULL. In this case, the mbrtowc() function inspects at most n bytes of the multibyte string starting at s, extracts the next complete multibyte character, converts it to a wide character and stores it at *pwc. It updates the shift state *ps. If the converted wide character is not L'\0' (the null wide character), it returns the number of bytes that were consumed from s. If the converted wide character is L'\0', it resets the shift state *ps to the initial state and returns 0. n , s, , mbrtowc() (size_t) -2. , n >= MB_CUR_MAX, . , s, , mbrtowc() (size_t) -1 errno EILSEQ. *ps . , s NULL, pwc NULL. mbrtowc() , . , s NULL. pwc n . , *ps , mbrtowc() (size_t) -1, errno EILSEQ *ps . mbrtowc() *ps 0. , ps NULL, , mbrtowc(). *ps mbstate_t. mbstate_t a , , memset(&a, 0, sizeof(a)); The mbrtowc() function returns the number of bytes parsed from the multibyte sequence starting at s, if a non-L'\0' wide character was recognized. It returns 0, if a L'\0' wide character was recognized. It returns (size_t) -1 and sets errno to EILSEQ, if an invalid multibyte sequence was encountered. It returns (size_t) -2 if it couldn't parse a complete multibyte character, meaning that n should be increased. attributes(7). +----------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+----------------------------+ | | | | +----------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+----------------------------+ |mbrtowc() | | MT-Unsafe race:mbrtowc/!ps | +----------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+----------------------------+ C11, POSIX.1-2008. POSIX.1-2001, C99. mbrtowc() LC_CTYPE . . mbsinit(3), mbsrtowcs(3) aereiae , Alexey , Azamat Hackimov , Dmitriy S. Seregin , Dmitry Bolkhovskikh , ITriskTI , Max Is , Yuri Kozlov , ; GNU 3 , . . , , . Linux man-pages 6.06 31 2023 . mbrtowc(3)