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Shift-JIS and UTF-8 implementation

Table 7 shows the Shift-JIS (Japanese characters) or UTF-8 (Unicode characters) locale categories.

Table 7. Default Shift-JIS and UTF-8 locales

Function	Description
`__use_sjis_ctype`	Sets the character set to the Shift-JIS multibyte encoding of Japanese characters
`__use_utf8_ctype`	Sets the character set to the UTF-8 multibyte encoding of all Unicode characters

The following list describes the effects of Shift-JIS and UTF-8 encoding:

The ordinary ctype functions behave correctly on any byte value that is a self-contained character in Shift-JIS. For example, half-width katakana characters that Shift-JIS encodes as single bytes between 0xA6 and 0xDF are treated as alphabetic by isalpha().
UTF-8 encoding uses the same set of self-contained characters as the ASCII character set.
The multibyte conversion functions such as mbrtowc(), mbsrtowcs(), and wcrtomb(), all convert between wide strings in Unicode and multibyte character strings in Shift-JIS or UTF-8.
printf("%ls") converts a Unicode wide string into Shift-JIS or UTF-8 output, and scanf("%ls") converts Shift-JIS or UTF-8 input into a Unicode wide string.

You can arbitrarily switch between multibyte locales and single-byte locales at runtime if you include more than one in your application. By default, only one locale at a time is included.

See also

Concepts

Link time selection of the locale subsystem in the C library.

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