WCRTOMB (3)
convert a wide character to a multibyte sequence
SYNOPSIS
#include <wchar.h>
size_t wcrtomb (char * s , wchar_t wc , mbstate_t * ps );
DESCRIPTION
The main case for this function is when s is not NULL and wc is not
L'\\0'.
In this case, the wcrtomb function converts the wide character wc
to its multibyte representation and stores it at the beginning of the character
array pointed to by s. It updates the shift state *ps, and
returns the length of said multibyte representation, i.e. the number of bytes
written at s.
A different case is when s is not NULL but wc is L'\\0'. In this
case the wcrtomb function stores at the character array pointed to by
s the shift sequence needed to bring *ps back to the initial state,
followed by a '\\0' byte. It updates the shift state *ps (i.e. brings
it into the initial state), and returns the length of the shift sequence plus
one, i.e. the number of bytes written at s.
A third case is when s is NULL. In this case wc is ignored,
and the function effectively returns wcrtomb(buf,L'\\0',ps) where
buf is an internal anonymous buffer.
In all of the above cases, if ps is a NULL pointer, a static anonymous
state only known to the wcrtomb function is used instead.
RETURN VALUE
The wcrtomb function returns the number of bytes that have been or would
have been written to the byte array at s. If wc can not be
represented as a multibyte sequence (according to the current locale),
(size_t)(-1) is returned, and errno set to EILSEQ.
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