The
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
getwc()
function or macro functions identically to
fgetwc().
It may be implemented as a macro, and may evaluate its argument
more than once.
There is no reason ever to use it.
The
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
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
fgetwc()
will actually read a multibyte sequence
from the stream and then convert it to a wide character.
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