getwchar

GETWCHAR(3)                Linux Programmer's Manual               GETWCHAR(3)



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
       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 non-locking counterpart, see unlocked_stdio(3).

RETURN VALUE
       The  getwchar  function  returns  the next wide-character from standard
       input, or WEOF.

CONFORMING TO
       ISO/ANSI C, UNIX98

NOTES
       The behaviour of getwchar depends on the LC_CTYPE category of the  cur-
       rent 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)



GNU                               1999-07-25                       GETWCHAR(3)