std::ctype::narrow, do_narrow

 

C++

Language

Standard library headers

Concepts

Utilities library

Strings library

Containers library

Algorithms library

Iterators library

Numerics library

Input/output library

Localizations library

Regular expressions library (C++11)

Atomic operations library (C++11)

Thread support library (C++11)

Filesystem library (C++17)

Technical Specifications

 

Localizations library

Locales and facets
locale
use_facet	has_facet
Character classification
isspace isblank (C++11) iscntrl isupper islower isalpha	isdigit ispunct isxdigit isalnum isprint isgraph
Conversions
toupper tolower	wstring_convert (C++11) wbuffer_convert (C++11)
Facet category base classes
ctype_base codecvt_base messages_base	time_base money_base
Facet categories
ctype ctype<char> codecvt collate messages time_get time_put	num_get num_put numpunct money_get money_put moneypunct
Locale-specific facets
ctype_byname codecvt_byname messages_byname collate_byname	time_get_byname time_put_byname numpunct_byname moneypunct_byname
Code conversion facets
codecvt_utf8 (C++11) codecvt_utf16 (C++11)	codecvt_utf8_utf16 (C++11) codecvt_mode (C++11)
C locale
setlocale localeconv lconv	LC_ALLLC_COLLATELC_CTYPELC_MONETARYLC_NUMERICLC_TIME

 

std::ctype

Member functions

ctype::ctype

ctype::~ctype

ctype::isctype::do_is

ctype::scan_isctype::do_scan_is

ctype::scan_notctype::do_scan_not

ctype::toupperctype::do_toupper

ctype::tolowerctype::do_tolower

ctype::widenctype::do_widen

ctype::narrowctype::do_narrow

Member functions of ctype<char>

ctype<char>::ctype

ctype<char>::~ctype

ctype<char>::table

ctype<char>::classic_table

ctype<char>::is

ctype<char>::scan_is

ctype<char>::scan_not

 

Defined in header <locale>
public: char narrow( CharT c, char dflt ) const;	(1)
public: const CharT* narrow( const CharT* beg, const CharT* end,                      char dflt, char* dst ) const;	(2)
protected: virtual char do_narrow( CharT c, char dflt ) const;	(3)
protected: virtual const CharT* do_narrow( const CharT* beg, const CharT* end,                                 char dflt, char* dst ) const;	(4)

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 (latin letters, digits, and punctuations required to write a C++ program)

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:

In US English UTF-8 locale:
'A' narrowed to 0x41
'Ａ' could not be narrowed
'ě' could not be narrowed
In Czech ISO-8859-2 locale:
'A' narrowed to 0x41
'Ａ' could not be narrowed
'ě' narrowed to 0xec

See also

widen	invokes do_widen (public member function)
narrow	narrows characters (public member function of std::basic_ios)
wctob	narrows a wide character to a single-byte narrow character, if possible (function)