Character Manipulation Function

int toascii(int c);

int __toascii(int c);

Internationalization (I18n) Function Overview

toascii converts a character to a 7-bit ASCII character.

__toascii is the same as toascii, supported on Windows platforms only.

There is no wide character or multibyte equivalent. There is also no Windows Generic version of __toascii.

I18n Issues

These functions cannot be used with multibyte or wide character strings. The I18n solution is to use sparingly and when architecture allows (such as for RFC 822 email transfer). In the case of a wide character string, use a conversion routine to convert it first to a single-byte character string and then call toascii or __toascii.

Recommended Replacements*

ANSI UTF-8	toascii
ANSI UTF-16	convert and call toascii
Microsoft Windows MBCS	__toascii
Microsoft Windows Unicode	convert and call __toascii
Microsoft Windows Generic	none

Character Manipulation Functions