.TH "al_utf16_encode(3alleg5) Allegro reference manual" "" "" "" ""
.SH NAME
.PP
al_utf16_encode \- Allegro 5 API
.SH SYNOPSIS
.IP
.nf
\f[C]
#include\ <allegro5/allegro.h>

size_t\ al_utf16_encode(uint16_t\ s[],\ int32_t\ c)
\f[]
.fi
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
Encode the specified code point to UTF\-16 into the buffer \f[C]s\f[].
The buffer must have enough space to hold the encoding, which takes
either 2 or 4 bytes.
This routine will refuse to encode code points above 0x10FFFF.
.PP
Returns the number of bytes written, which is the same as that returned
by al_utf16_width(3alleg5).
.SH SEE ALSO
.PP
al_utf8_encode(3alleg5), al_ustr_encode_utf16(3alleg5)