---
title: TECCreateOneToManyConverter
framework: Core Services
role: symbol
role_heading: Function
platforms: [macOS 10.0+]
path: coreservices/1571794-teccreateonetomanyconverter
---

# TECCreateOneToManyConverter

Determines a conversion path for the source encoding anddestinations encodings you specify, creates a text encoding converterobject, and returns a reference to it.

## Declaration

```occ
OSStatus TECCreateOneToManyConverter(TECObjectRef *newEncodingConverter, TextEncoding inputEncoding, ItemCount numOutputEncodings, const TextEncoding outputEncodings[]);
```

## Parameters

- `newEncodingConverter`: A pointer to a converter object. On return, this points to a newly created one-to-many converter object.
- `inputEncoding`: The text encoding specification for the source text encoding.
- `numOutputEncodings`: The number of text encoding specifications in the outputEncoding array.
- `outputEncodings`: An ordered array of text encoding specifications for the destination text encodings.

## Return Value

Return Value A resultcode. See Result Codes.

## Discussion

Discussion You use this converter object reference with conversion functionssuch as  TECConvertTextToMultipleEncodings.The converter object describes the source, destination, and intermediateencodings; state information; and references to required plug-ins. To remove a converter object, you must call the function  TECDisposeConverter.

## See Also

### Converting to Multiple Encoding Runs

- [TECConvertTextToMultipleEncodings](coreservices/1571849-tecconverttexttomultipleencoding.md)
- [TECFlushMultipleEncodings](coreservices/1571842-tecflushmultipleencodings.md)
- [TECGetEncodingList](coreservices/1571830-tecgetencodinglist.md)