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WCSTOMBS(3) Linux Programmer's Manual WCSTOMBS(3)
NAME
wcstombs - convert a wide character string to a multibyte
character string.
SYNOPSIS
#include <stdlib.h>
size_t wcstombs(char *s, const wchar_t *pwcs, size_t n);
DESCRIPTION
The wcstombs() function converts a sequence of wide char-
acters from the array pwcs into a sequence of multibyte
characters and stores up to n bytes of multibyte charac-
ters in the array s.
RETURN VALUE
wcstombs() returns the number of bytes stored in s or -1
if s contains an invalid wide character.
CONFORMING TO
SVID 3, ISO 9899
SEE ALSO
mblen(3), mbtowc(3), mbstowcs(3), wctomb(3)
GNU March 29, 1993 1
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