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FWIDE(3)		   Linux Programmer's Manual		      FWIDE(3)

NAME
       fwide - set and determine the orientation of a FILE stream

SYNOPSIS
       #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;
	   or cc -std=c99

DESCRIPTION
       When mode is zero, the fwide() function determines the current orienta‐
       tion  of stream.	 It returns a positive value if stream is wide-charac‐
       ter 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,
       i.e., 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-char‐
       acter 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.

RETURN VALUE
       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.

CONFORMING TO
       C99, POSIX.1-2001.

NOTES
       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  per‐
       formed through the fwprintf(3) function with the %c and %s directives.

SEE ALSO
       fprintf(3), fwprintf(3)

COLOPHON
       This  page  is  part of release 3.27 of the Linux man-pages project.  A
       description of the project, and information about reporting  bugs,  can
       be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.

GNU				  2010-09-20			      FWIDE(3)
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