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GETWCHAR (3)

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.

RETURN VALUE

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

CONFORMING TO

    ISO/ANSI C, UNIX98

SEE ALSO

NOTES

    The behaviour 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. man3/getcwd.3 man3/getcwd.3