centos man page for getwc

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

NAME
       fgetwc, getwc - read a wide character from a FILE stream

SYNOPSIS
       #include <stdio.h>
       #include <wchar.h>

       wint_t fgetwc(FILE *stream);
       wint_t getwc(FILE *stream);

DESCRIPTION
       The fgetwc() function is the wide-character equivalent of the fgetc(3) function.  It reads a wide character from stream and returns it.	If
       the end of stream is reached, or if ferror(stream) becomes true, it returns WEOF.  If a wide-character conversion  error  occurs,  it  sets
       errno to EILSEQ and returns WEOF.

       The getwc() function or macro functions identically to fgetwc().  It may be implemented as a macro, and may evaluate its argument more than
       once.  There is no reason ever to use it.

       For nonlocking counterparts, see unlocked_stdio(3).

RETURN VALUE
       The fgetwc() function returns the next wide-character from the stream, or WEOF.	In the event of an error, errno is  set  to  indicate  the
       cause.

ERRORS
       Apart from the usual ones, there is

       EILSEQ The data obtained from the input stream does not form a valid character.

CONFORMING TO
       C99, POSIX.1-2001.

NOTES
       The behavior of fgetwc() depends on the LC_CTYPE category of the current locale.

       In  the absence of additional information passed to the fopen(3) call, it is reasonable to expect that fgetwc() will actually read a multi-
       byte sequence from the stream and then convert it to a wide character.

SEE ALSO
       fgetws(3), fputwc(3), ungetwc(3), unlocked_stdio(3)

COLOPHON
       This page is part of release 3.53 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/.

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