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(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 3.25 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/.



GNU                                                        1999-07-25                                                GETWCHAR(3)