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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 international-
       ized programs.  Internationalized programs must never distinguish  sin-
       gle-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  characters.   Use  either
       wctomb(3) or the thread-safe wcrtomb(3) instead.
SEE ALSO
       btowc(3), wcrtomb(3), wctomb(3)
COLOPHON
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       description of the project, and information about reporting  bugs,  can
       be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.

GNU                               2011-09-22                          WCTOB(3)