ismultibyte

Tests for multibyte characters.

Library:LibC
Service:Characters and Strings

Syntax

  #include <ctype.h> 
   
  int ismultibyte (
     const char   *c);

Parameters

c

(IN) Points to the null-terminated string to test.

Return Values

Returns a nonzero value when the argument is a multibyte character. Otherwise, it returns zero.

Remarks

The ismultibyte function tests the first character in the specified string and returns whether it is double-byte character. On NetWare®, multibyte sequences are always only two bytes.

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