NAME

std::ctype::narrow,do_narrow - std::ctype::narrow,do_narrow

Synopsis

Defined in header <locale>
public: (1)
char narrow( CharT c, char dflt ) const;
public:

const CharT* narrow( const CharT* beg, const CharT* end, (2)

char dflt, char* dst ) const;
protected: (3)
virtual char do_narrow( CharT c, char dflt ) const;
protected:

virtual const CharT* do_narrow( const CharT* beg, const CharT* end, (4)

char dflt, char* dst ) const;

1,2) Public member function, calls the protected virtual member function do_narrow
of the most derived class.
3) Converts the (possibly wide) character c to multibyte representation if the
character can be represented with a single byte (for example, ASCII characters in
UTF-8 encoding are single bytes). Returns dflt if such conversion does not exist.
4) For every character in the character array [beg, end), writes narrowed characters
(or dflt whenever narrowing fails) to the successive locations in the character
array pointed to by dst.

Narrowing is always successful and is always reversible (by calling widen()) for all
characters from the
basic source character set
(until C++23)
basic character set
(since C++23).

Narrowing, if successful, preserves all character classification categories known to
is().

Narrowing of any digit character guarantees that if the result is subtracted from
the character literal '0', the difference equals the digit value of the original
character.

Parameters

c - character to convert
dflt - default value to produce if the conversion fails
beg - pointer to the first character in an array of characters to convert
end - one past the end pointer for the array of characters to convert
dst - pointer to the first element of the array of char to fill

Return value

1,3) narrowed character or dflt if narrowing fails
2,4) end

Example

// Run this code

#include <locale>
#include <iostream>

void try_narrow(const std::ctype<wchar_t>& f, wchar_t c)
{
char n = f.narrow(c, 0);
if (n) {
std::wcout << '\'' << c << "' narrowed to " << +(unsigned char)n << '\n';
} else {
std::wcout << '\'' << c << "' could not be narrowed\n";
}
}

int main()
{
std::locale::global(std::locale("en_US.utf8"));
std::wcout.imbue(std::locale());
std::wcout << std::hex << std::showbase << "In US English UTF-8 locale:\n";
auto& f = std::use_facet<std::ctype<wchar_t>>(std::locale());
try_narrow(f, L'A');
try_narrow(f, L'Ａ');
try_narrow(f, L'ě');

std::locale::global(std::locale("cs_CZ.iso88592"));
auto& f2 = std::use_facet<std::ctype<wchar_t>>(std::locale());
std::wcout << "In Czech ISO-8859-2 locale:\n";
try_narrow(f2, L'A');
try_narrow(f2, L'Ａ');
try_narrow(f2, L'ě');
}

Output: