GETWCHAR
Section: Linux Programmer's Manual (3)
Updated: 1999-07-25
NAME
getwchar - read a wide character from standard input
SYNOPSIS
#include <wchar.h>
wint_t getwchar(void);
DESCRIPTION
The
getwchar()
function is the wide-character equivalent of the
getchar(3)
function.
It reads a wide character from stdin and returns
it.
If the end of stream is reached, or if ferror(stdin) becomes
true, it returns
WEOF.
If a wide-character conversion error occurs, it sets
errno to EILSEQ and returns
WEOF.
For a nonlocking counterpart, see
unlocked_stdio(3).
RETURN VALUE
The
getwchar()
function returns the next wide-character from
standard input, or
WEOF.
CONFORMING TO
C99.
NOTES
The behavior of
getwchar()
depends on the
LC_CTYPE
category of the
current locale.
It is reasonable to expect that
getwchar()
will actually
read a multibyte sequence from standard input and then
convert it to a wide character.
SEE ALSO
fgetwc(3),
unlocked_stdio(3)
COLOPHON
This page is part of release 3.27 of the Linux
man-pages
project.
A description of the project,
and information about reporting bugs,
can be found at
http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.
Index
- NAME
-
- SYNOPSIS
-
- DESCRIPTION
-
- RETURN VALUE
-
- CONFORMING TO
-
- NOTES
-
- SEE ALSO
-
- COLOPHON
-
This document was created by
man2html,
using the manual pages.
Time: 07:35:35 GMT, March 26, 2013