1.\" $NetBSD: getwc.3,v 1.3 2002/02/07 07:00:26 ross Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1993 4.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 5.\" 6.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by 7.\" Chris Torek and the American National Standards Committee X3, 8.\" on Information Processing Systems. 9.\" 10.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 11.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 12.\" are met: 13.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 14.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 15.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 16.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 17.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 18.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 19.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 20.\" without specific prior written permission. 21.\" 22.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 23.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 24.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 25.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 26.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 27.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 28.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 29.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 30.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 31.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 32.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 33.\" 34.\" @(#)getc.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93 35.\" $FreeBSD$ 36.\" 37.Dd March 3, 2004 38.Dt GETWC 3 39.Os 40.Sh NAME 41.Nm fgetwc , 42.Nm getwc , 43.Nm getwchar 44.Nd get next wide character from input stream 45.Sh LIBRARY 46.Lb libc 47.Sh SYNOPSIS 48.In stdio.h 49.In wchar.h 50.Ft wint_t 51.Fn fgetwc "FILE *stream" 52.Ft wint_t 53.Fn getwc "FILE *stream" 54.Ft wint_t 55.Fn getwchar void 56.Sh DESCRIPTION 57The 58.Fn fgetwc 59function 60obtains the next input wide character (if present) from the stream pointed at by 61.Fa stream , 62or the next character pushed back on the stream via 63.Xr ungetwc 3 . 64.Pp 65The 66.Fn getwc 67function 68acts essentially identically to 69.Fn fgetwc . 70.Pp 71The 72.Fn getwchar 73function 74is equivalent to 75.Fn getwc 76with the argument 77.Dv stdin . 78.Sh RETURN VALUES 79If successful, these routines return the next wide character 80from the 81.Fa stream . 82If the stream is at end-of-file or a read error occurs, 83the routines return 84.Dv WEOF . 85The routines 86.Xr feof 3 87and 88.Xr ferror 3 89must be used to distinguish between end-of-file and error. 90If an error occurs, the global variable 91.Va errno 92is set to indicate the error. 93The end-of-file condition is remembered, even on a terminal, and all 94subsequent attempts to read will return 95.Dv WEOF 96until the condition is cleared with 97.Xr clearerr 3 . 98.Sh SEE ALSO 99.Xr ferror 3 , 100.Xr fopen 3 , 101.Xr fread 3 , 102.Xr getc 3 , 103.Xr putwc 3 , 104.Xr stdio 3 , 105.Xr ungetwc 3 106.Sh STANDARDS 107The 108.Fn fgetwc , 109.Fn getwc 110and 111.Fn getwchar 112functions 113conform to 114.St -isoC-99 . 115