NAME

SDL_UCS4ToUTF8 - Convert a single Unicode codepoint to UTF-8.

HEADER FILE

Defined in SDL3/SDL_stdinc.h

SYNOPSIS

#include "SDL3/SDL.h"

char * SDL_UCS4ToUTF8(Uint32 codepoint, char *dst);

DESCRIPTION

The buffer pointed to by dst must be at least 4 bytes long, as this function may generate between 1 and 4 bytes of output.

This function returns the first byte _after_ the newly-written UTF-8 sequence, which is useful for encoding multiple codepoints in a loop, or knowing where to write a NULL-terminator character to end the string (in either case, plan to have a buffer of _more_ than 4 bytes!).

If codepoint is an invalid value (outside the Unicode range, or a UTF-16 surrogate value, etc), this will use U+FFFD (REPLACEMENT CHARACTER) for the codepoint instead, and not set an error.

If dst is NULL, this returns NULL immediately without writing to the pointer and without setting an error.

FUNCTION PARAMETERS

codepoint

a Unicode codepoint to convert to UTF-8.

dst

the location to write the encoded UTF-8. Must point to at least 4 bytes!

RETURN VALUE

Returns the first byte past the newly-written UTF-8 sequence.

THREAD SAFETY

It is safe to call this function from any thread.

AVAILABILITY

This function is available since SDL 3.2.0.