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6 btowc - convert single byte to wide character
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9 #include <wchar.h>
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11 wint_t btowc(int c);
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14 The btowc() function converts c, interpreted as a multibyte sequence of
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20 The btowc() function returns the wide character converted from the sin‐
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28 The behavior of btowc() depends on the LC_CTYPE category of the current
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31 This function should never be used. It does not work for encodings
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40 This page is part of release 3.53 of the Linux man-pages project. A
41 description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can
42 be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.
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