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.\" ISO/IEC 9899:1999
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-.TH BTOWC 3 2009-02-04 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH BTOWC 3 2011-09-22 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
btowc \- convert single byte to wide character
.SH SYNOPSIS
It does not work for encodings which have
state, and unnecessarily treats single bytes differently from multibyte
sequences.
-Use the function
-.BR mbtowc ()
+Use either
+.BR mbtowc (3)
+or the thread-safe
+.BR mbrtowc (3)
instead.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR mbtowc (3),
+.BR mbrtowc (3),
.BR wctob (3)