wcsrtombs(3) Library Functions Manual wcsrtombs(3) wcsrtombs - C (libc, -lc) #include size_t wcsrtombs(size_t size; char dest[restrict size], const wchar_t **restrict src, size_t size, mbstate_t *restrict ps); If dest is not NULL, the wcsrtombs() function converts the wide-character string *src to a multibyte string starting at dest. At most size bytes are written to dest. The shift state *ps is updated. The conversion is effectively performed by repeatedly calling wcrtomb(dest, *src, ps), as long as this call succeeds, and then incrementing dest by the number of bytes written and *src by one. The conversion can stop for three reasons: o ( ). *src , (size_t) -1, errno EILSEQ. o The size limit forces a stop. In this case, *src is left pointing to the next wide character to be converted, and the number of bytes written to dest is returned. o The wide-character string has been completely converted, including the terminating null wide character (L'\0'), which has the side effect of bringing back *ps to the initial state. In this case, *src is set to NULL, and the number of bytes written to dest, excluding the terminating null byte ('\0'), is returned. If dest is NULL, size is ignored, and the conversion proceeds as above, except that the converted bytes are not written out to memory, and that no size limit exists. , ps NULL, , wcsrtombs(). The programmer must ensure that there is room for at least size bytes at dest. wcsrtombs() , null. , , (size_t) -1 errno EILSEQ. attributes(7). +----------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+--------------------------+ | | | | +----------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+--------------------------+ |wcsrtombs() | | MT-Unsafe | | | | race:wcsrtombs/!ps | +----------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+--------------------------+ C11, POSIX.1-2008. POSIX.1-2001, C99. wcsrtombs() LC_CTYPE . NULL ps . iconv(3), mbsinit(3), wcrtomb(3), wcsnrtombs(3), wcstombs(3) () Azamat Hackimov , Yuri Kozlov Kirill Rekhov ; GNU (GNU General Public License - GPL, 3 ) , - . - , , () () () <>. Linux 6.15 28 2025 . wcsrtombs(3)