chr2uni

Converts the specified character to Unicode.

Library:LibC
Service:Characters and Strings

Syntax

  #include <unilib.h> 
   
  int chr2uni (
     UniRuleTable_t   table,
     unicode_t       *dest,
     const char      *src,
     int             *used );
  

Parameters

table

(IN) Specifies the table to use in the conversion. To use the host's default code page, specify UNI_LOCAL_DEFAULT. Otherwise, specify the value returned from the UniGetTable function.

dest

(OUT) Points to the address of the converted character.

src

(IN) Points to the source character. You do not need a null terminator after the character, and you do not need to know the width of the character to be converted.

used

(OUT) Points to whether the conversion used one byte or two bytes to perform the conversion. The codepage designated by the table parameter determines this value.

Return Values

If successful, returns 0. Otherwise returns a negative error code.

Decimal

Name

Description

-532

UNI_ERR_UNMAPPABLE_CHAR

The character in the source is unmappable.

See Also

uni2char