Synopsis
int mbtowc(wchar_t *pwc,
           const char *s,
           size_t n);
Description

mbtowc converts a single multi-byte character to a wide character in the current locale.

If s is a null pointer, mbtowc returns a nonzero value if multi-byte character encodings are state-dependent in the current locale, and zero otherwise.

If s is not null and the object that s points to is a wide-character null character, mbtowc returns 0.

If s is not null and the object that points to forms a valid multi-byte character, mbtowc returns the length in bytes of the multi-byte character.

If the object that points to does not form a valid multi-byte character within the first n characters, it returns −1.

See Also

mbtowc_l