uconvert_toascii(3)

✨ uconvert_toascii(3) ✨

okay so bestie, we're diving into the Allegro manual for uconvert_toascii(3) — and no, it's not as scary as it sounds, i promise 🫶 it's literally just a lil helper macro from the Allegro game programming library, and it's giving "short but iconic."

💖 NAME 💖

uconvert_toascii — converts strings from the current format into ASCII. part of the Allegro game programming library, periodt ✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <allegro.h>

char *uconvert_toascii(const char *s, char buf[]);

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so basically, this is a helper macro 👑 its whole job? converting strings from the current encoding format into ASCII. that's it. that's the vibe.

it expands to:

uconvert(s, U_CURRENT, buf, U_ASCII, sizeof(buf))

so like, whenever you call uconvert_toascii, the macro lowkey just hands everything over to uconvert with U_CURRENT as the source and U_ASCII as the destination, using sizeof(buf) as the size. no cap, that's the whole thing 💅

🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

• uconvert(3)

and that's a wrap, bestie! 🧚 this slay little page is from Allegro, version 4.4.3 — literally iconic, mwah 💜💖✨