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intmbtowc(wchar_t*pwc,constchar*s,std::size_tn);Converts a multibyte character whose first byte is pointed to by s to a wide character, written to *pwc if pwc is not null.
If s is a null pointer, resets the global conversion state and determines whether shift sequences are used.
Parameters
s - pointer to the multibyte character n - limit on the number of bytes in s that can be examined pwc - pointer to the wide character for output Return value
If s is not a null pointer, returns the number of bytes that are contained in the multibyte character or -1 if the first bytes pointed to by s do not form a valid multibyte character or 0 if s is pointing at the null character '\0'.
If s is a null pointer, resets its internal conversion state to represent the initial shift state and returns 0 if the current multibyte encoding is not state-dependent (does not use shift sequences) or a non-zero value if the current multibyte encoding is state-dependent (uses shift sequences).
Notes
Each call to mbtowc updates the internal global conversion state (a static object of type
, only known to this function). If the multibyte encoding uses shift states, care must be taken to avoid backtracking or multiple scans. In any case, multiple threads should not call mbtowc without synchronization:
may be used instead.
Example
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#include<clocale>#include<cstdlib>#include<cstring>#include<iostream>intprint_mb(constchar*ptr){std::mbtowc(nullptr,0,0);// reset the conversion stateconstchar*end=ptr+std::strlen(ptr);intret{};for(wchar_twc;(ret=std::mbtowc(&wc,ptr,end-ptr))>0;ptr+=ret)std::wcout<<wc;std::wcout<<'\n';returnret;}intmain(){std::setlocale(LC_ALL,"en_US.utf8");// UTF-8 narrow multibyte encodingconstchar*str="z\u00df\u6c34\U0001d10b";// or "zß水𝄋"// or "\x7a\xc3\x9f\xe6\xb0\xb4\xf0\x9d\x84\x8b";print_mb(str);}Output:
zß水𝄋 See also
converts the next multibyte character to wide character, given state
(function)
returns the number of bytes in the next multibyte character
(function)
[virtual]
converts a string from ExternT to InternT, such as when reading from file
(virtual protected member function of std::codecvt<InternT,ExternT,StateT>)