redhat man page for 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 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 charac-
       ter.

SEE ALSO
       fgetwc(3), unlocked_stdio(3)

GNU
								    1999-07-25							       GETWCHAR(3)