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FGETWC

NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

#include <stdio.h>

#include <wchar.h> I wint_t fgetwc(FILE * stream ); I wint_t getwc(FILE * stream );

DESCRIPTION

The R 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 R getwc () function or macro functions identically to R 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 non-locking counterparts, see unlocked_stdio(3).

RETURN VALUE

The R fgetwc () function returns the next wide-character from the stream, or WEOF.

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 R 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 R fgetwc () will actually read a multibyte sequence from the stream and then convert it to a wide character.

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