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diff --git a/upstream/fedora-40/man3/btowc.3 b/upstream/fedora-40/man3/btowc.3 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..837f43ca --- /dev/null +++ b/upstream/fedora-40/man3/btowc.3 @@ -0,0 +1,86 @@ +'\" t +.\" Copyright (c) Bruno Haible <haible@clisp.cons.org> +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later +.\" +.\" References consulted: +.\" GNU glibc-2 source code and manual +.\" Dinkumware C library reference http://www.dinkumware.com/ +.\" OpenGroup's Single UNIX specification http://www.UNIX-systems.org/online.html +.\" ISO/IEC 9899:1999 +.\" +.TH btowc 3 2023-10-31 "Linux man-pages 6.06" +.SH NAME +btowc \- convert single byte to wide character +.SH LIBRARY +Standard C library +.RI ( libc ", " \-lc ) +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.B #include <wchar.h> +.P +.BI "wint_t btowc(int " c ); +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +The +.BR btowc () +function converts \fIc\fP, +interpreted as a multibyte sequence +of length 1, starting in the initial shift state, to a wide character and +returns it. +If \fIc\fP is +.B EOF +or not a valid multibyte sequence of length 1, +the +.BR btowc () +function returns +.BR WEOF . +.SH RETURN VALUE +The +.BR btowc () +function returns the wide character +converted from the single byte \fIc\fP. +If \fIc\fP is +.B EOF +or not a valid multibyte sequence of length 1, +it returns +.BR WEOF . +.SH ATTRIBUTES +For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see +.BR attributes (7). +.TS +allbox; +lbx lb lb +l l l. +Interface Attribute Value +T{ +.na +.nh +.BR btowc () +T} Thread safety MT-Safe +.TE +.SH STANDARDS +C11, POSIX.1-2008. +.SH HISTORY +C99, POSIX.1-2001. +.SH NOTES +The behavior of +.BR btowc () +depends on the +.B LC_CTYPE +category of the +current locale. +.P +This function should never be used. +It does not work for encodings which have +state, and unnecessarily treats single bytes differently from multibyte +sequences. +Use either +.BR mbtowc (3) +or the thread-safe +.BR mbrtowc (3) +instead. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR mbrtowc (3), +.BR mbtowc (3), +.BR wctob (3) |