btowc

#include <stdio.h>
#include <wchar.h>
#include <locale.h>
#include <assert.h>
 
void try_widen(unsigned char c)
{
    wint_t w = btowc(c);
    if(w != WEOF)
        printf("The single-byte character %#x widens to %#x\n", c, w);
    else
        printf("The single-byte character %#x failed to widen\n", c);
}
 
int main(void)
{
    char *loc = setlocale(LC_ALL, "lt_LT.iso88594");
    assert(loc);
    printf("In Lithuanian ISO-8859-4 locale:\n");
    try_widen('A');
    try_widen('\xdf'); // German letter ß (U+00df) in ISO-8859-4
    try_widen('\xf9'); // Lithuanian letter ų (U+0173) in ISO-8859-4
 
    setlocale(LC_ALL, "lt_LT.utf8");
    printf("In Lithuanian UTF-8 locale:\n");
    try_widen('A');
    try_widen('\xdf');
    try_widen('\xf9');
}