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NAME
       btowc - convert single byte to wide character

SYNOPSIS
       #include 

       wint_t btowc(int c);

DESCRIPTION
       The btowc() function converts c, interpreted as a multibyte sequence of
       length 1, starting in the initial shift state, to a wide character  and
       returns it.  If c is EOF or not a valid multibyte sequence of length 1,
       the btowc() function returns WEOF.

RETURN VALUE
       The btowc() function returns the wide character converted from the sin
       gle byte c.  If c is EOF or not a valid multibyte sequence of length 1,
       it returns WEOF.

CONFORMING TO
       C99, POSIX.1-2001.

NOTES
       The behavior of btowc() depends on the LC_CTYPE category of the current
       locale.

       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 the function mbtowc() instead.

SEE ALSO
       mbtowc(3)

COLOPHON
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       description of the project, and information about reporting  bugs,  can
       be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.



GNU				  1999-07-25			      BTOWC(3)