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.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 19.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 20.\" This product includes software developed by the University of 21.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. 22.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 23.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 24.\" without specific prior written permission. 25.\" 26.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 27.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 28.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 29.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 30.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 31.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 32.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 33.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 34.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 35.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 36.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 37.\" 38.\" @(#)getc.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93 39.\" $FreeBSD$ 40.\" 41.Dd March 3, 2004 42.Dt GETWC 3 43.Os 44.Sh NAME 45.Nm fgetwc , 46.Nm getwc , 47.Nm getwchar 48.Nd get next wide character from input stream 49.Sh LIBRARY 50.Lb libc 51.Sh SYNOPSIS 52.In stdio.h 53.In wchar.h 54.Ft wint_t 55.Fn fgetwc "FILE *stream" 56.Ft wint_t 57.Fn getwc "FILE *stream" 58.Ft wint_t 59.Fn getwchar 60.Sh DESCRIPTION 61The 62.Fn fgetwc 63function 64obtains the next input wide character (if present) from the stream pointed at by 65.Fa stream , 66or the next character pushed back on the stream via 67.Xr ungetwc 3 . 68.Pp 69The 70.Fn getwc 71function 72acts essentially identically to 73.Fn fgetwc . 74.Pp 75The 76.Fn getwchar 77function 78is equivalent to 79.Fn getwc 80with the argument 81.Dv stdin . 82.Sh RETURN VALUES 83If successful, these routines return the next wide character 84from the 85.Fa stream . 86If the stream is at end-of-file or a read error occurs, 87the routines return 88.Dv WEOF . 89The routines 90.Xr feof 3 91and 92.Xr ferror 3 93must be used to distinguish between end-of-file and error. 94If an error occurs, the global variable 95.Va errno 96is set to indicate the error. 97The end-of-file condition is remembered, even on a terminal, and all 98subsequent attempts to read will return 99.Dv WEOF 100until the condition is cleared with 101.Xr clearerr 3 . 102.Sh SEE ALSO 103.Xr ferror 3 , 104.Xr fopen 3 , 105.Xr fread 3 , 106.Xr getc 3 , 107.Xr putwc 3 , 108.Xr stdio 3 , 109.Xr ungetwc 3 110.Sh STANDARDS 111The 112.Fn fgetwc , 113.Fn getwc 114and 115.Fn getwchar 116functions 117conform to 118.St -isoC-99 . 119