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| author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-15 19:40:15 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-15 19:40:15 +0000 |
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diff --git a/man3/getwchar.3 b/man3/getwchar.3 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0ce51ce --- /dev/null +++ b/man3/getwchar.3 @@ -0,0 +1,88 @@ +'\" t +.\" Copyright (c) Bruno Haible <haible@clisp.cons.org> +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later +.\" +.\" References consulted: +.\" GNU glibc-2 source code and manual +.\" Dinkumware C library reference http://www.dinkumware.com/ +.\" OpenGroup's Single UNIX specification +.\" http://www.UNIX-systems.org/online.html +.\" ISO/IEC 9899:1999 +.\" +.TH getwchar 3 2023-07-20 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01" +.SH NAME +getwchar \- read a wide character from standard input +.SH LIBRARY +Standard C library +.RI ( libc ", " \-lc ) +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.B #include <wchar.h> +.PP +.B "wint_t getwchar(void);" +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +The +.BR getwchar () +function is the wide-character equivalent of the +.BR getchar (3) +function. +It reads a wide character from +.I stdin +and returns +it. +If the end of stream is reached, or if +.I ferror(stdin) +becomes true, it returns +.BR WEOF . +If a wide-character conversion error occurs, it sets +.I errno +to +.B EILSEQ +and returns +.BR WEOF . +.PP +For a nonlocking counterpart, see +.BR unlocked_stdio (3). +.SH RETURN VALUE +The +.BR getwchar () +function returns the next wide-character from +standard input, or +.BR WEOF . +.SH ATTRIBUTES +For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see +.BR attributes (7). +.TS +allbox; +lbx lb lb +l l l. +Interface Attribute Value +T{ +.na +.nh +.BR getwchar () +T} Thread safety MT-Safe +.TE +.sp 1 +.SH STANDARDS +C11, POSIX.1-2008. +.SH HISTORY +C99, POSIX.1-2001. +.SH NOTES +The behavior of +.BR getwchar () +depends on the +.B LC_CTYPE +category of the +current locale. +.PP +It is reasonable to expect that +.BR getwchar () +will actually +read a multibyte sequence from standard input and then +convert it to a wide character. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR fgetwc (3), +.BR unlocked_stdio (3) |