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getwchar ? read a wide character from standard input |
#include <wchar.h> wint_t getwchar (void); |
The getwchar function is the wide-character equivalent of the getchar function. It reads a wide character from stdin and returns it. If the end of stream is reached, or if ferror(stdin) becomes true, it returns WEOF. If a wide character conversion error occurs, it sets errno to EILSEQ and returns WEOF. |
The getwchar function returns the next wide-character from standard input, or WEOF. |
ISO/ANSI C, UNIX98 |
fgetwc(3) |
The behaviour of getwchar depends on the LC_CTYPE category of the current locale. It is reasonable to expect that getwchar will actually read a multibyte sequence from standard input and then convert it to a wide character. |