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getwchar(3) Library Functions Manual getwchar(3)
getwchar - read a wide character from standard input
Standard C library (libc, -lc)
#include <wchar.h> wint_t getwchar(void);
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).
The getwchar() function returns the next wide-character from standard input, or WEOF.
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7). ┌──────────────────────────────────────┬───────────────┬─────────┐ │Interface │ Attribute │ Value │ ├──────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────┼─────────┤ │getwchar() │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe │ └──────────────────────────────────────┴───────────────┴─────────┘
C11, POSIX.1-2008.
C99, POSIX.1-2001.
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.
fgetwc(3), unlocked_stdio(3)
Linux man-pages 6.04 2023-03-30 getwchar(3)
Pages that refer to this page: fgetc(3), gets(3)