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FWIDE(3) Linux Programmer's Manual FWIDE(3)
fwide - set and determine the orientation of a FILE stream
#include <wchar.h>
int fwide(FILE *stream, int mode);
Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):
fwide():
_XOPEN_SOURCE >= 500 || _ISOC99_SOURCE ||
_POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L
When mode is zero, the fwide() function determines the current
orientation of stream. It returns a positive value if stream is
wide-character oriented, that is, if wide-character I/O is permitted
but char I/O is disallowed. It returns a negative value if stream is
byte oriented—that is, if char I/O is permitted but wide-character
I/O is disallowed. It returns zero if stream has no orientation yet;
in this case the next I/O operation might change the orientation (to
byte oriented if it is a char I/O operation, or to wide-character
oriented if it is a wide-character I/O operation).
Once a stream has an orientation, it cannot be changed and persists
until the stream is closed.
When mode is nonzero, the fwide() function first attempts to set
stream's orientation (to wide-character oriented if mode is greater
than 0, or to byte oriented if mode is less than 0). It then returns
a value denoting the current orientation, as above.
The fwide() function returns the stream's orientation, after possibly
changing it. A positive return value means wide-character oriented.
A negative return value means byte oriented. A return value of zero
means undecided.
POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008, C99.
Wide-character output to a byte oriented stream can be performed
through the fprintf(3) function with the %lc and %ls directives.
Char oriented output to a wide-character oriented stream can be
performed through the fwprintf(3) function with the %c and %s
directives.
fprintf(3), fwprintf(3)
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