Open System Services Library Calls Reference Manual (G06.29+, H06.08+, J06.03+)

mbtowc(3) OSS Library Calls Reference Manual

• If the character encoding is not shift-state dependent, mbtowc( ) returns a value of 0

(zero).

The return value is never greater than the value speciﬁed by the n parameter or the value of the

MB_CUR_MAX macro.

ERRORS

If the following condition occurs, the mbtowc ) function sets errno to the corresponding value.

[EILSEQ] The s parameter points to an invalid multibyte character or a multibyte character

with more the n bytes.

RELATED INFORMATION

Functions: mblen(3), wctomb(3), mbstowcs(3), wcstombs(3).

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