1.\" $NetBSD: putwc.3,v 1.2 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. 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.Dd March 3, 2004 35.Dt PUTWC 3 36.Os 37.Sh NAME 38.Nm fputwc , 39.Nm putwc , 40.Nm putwchar 41.Nd output a wide character to a stream 42.Sh LIBRARY 43.Lb libc 44.Sh SYNOPSIS 45.In stdio.h 46.In wchar.h 47.Ft wint_t 48.Fn fputwc "wchar_t wc" "FILE *stream" 49.Ft wint_t 50.Fn putwc "wchar_t wc" "FILE *stream" 51.Ft wint_t 52.Fn putwchar "wchar_t wc" 53.Sh DESCRIPTION 54The 55.Fn fputwc 56function 57writes the wide character 58.Fa wc 59to the output stream pointed to by 60.Fa stream . 61.Pp 62The 63.Fn putwc 64function 65acts essentially identically to 66.Fn fputwc . 67.Pp 68The 69.Fn putwchar 70function 71is identical to 72.Fn putwc 73with an output stream of 74.Dv stdout . 75.Sh RETURN VALUES 76The 77.Fn fputwc , 78.Fn putwc , 79and 80.Fn putwchar 81functions 82return the wide character written. 83If an error occurs, the value 84.Dv WEOF 85is returned. 86.Sh SEE ALSO 87.Xr ferror 3 , 88.Xr fopen 3 , 89.Xr getwc 3 , 90.Xr putc 3 , 91.Xr stdio 3 92.Sh STANDARDS 93The 94.Fn fputwc , 95.Fn putwc , 96and 97.Fn putwchar 98functions 99conform to 100.St -isoC-99 . 101