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.TH FWIDE 3 2007-07-26 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
fwide \- set and determine the orientation of a FILE stream
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
.B #include <wchar.h>
.sp
.BI "int fwide(FILE *" stream ", int " mode );
.fi
.sp
.in -4n
Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see
.BR feature_test_macros (7)):
.in
.sp
.BR fwide ():
_XOPEN_SOURCE\ >=\ 500 || _ISOC99_SOURCE; or
.I cc\ -std=c99
.SH DESCRIPTION
When \fImode\fP is zero, the
.BR fwide ()
function determines the current
orientation of \fIstream\fP.
It returns a value > 0 if \fIstream\fP is
wide-character oriented, that is, if wide-character I/O is permitted but char
I/O is disallowed.
It returns a value < 0 if \fIstream\fP is byte oriented,
i.e. if char I/O is permitted but wide-character I/O is disallowed.
It
returns zero if \fIstream\fP 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).
.PP
Once a stream has an orientation, it cannot be changed and persists until
the stream is closed.
.PP
When \fImode\fP is nonzero, the
.BR fwide ()
function first attempts to set
\fIstream\fP's orientation (to wide-character oriented if \fImode\fP > 0, or
to byte oriented if \fImode\fP < 0).
It then returns a value denoting the
current orientation, as above.
.SH "RETURN VALUE"
The
.BR fwide ()
function returns the stream's orientation, after possibly
changing it.
A return value > 0 means wide-character oriented.
A return value
< 0 means byte oriented.
A return value of zero means undecided.
.SH "CONFORMING TO"
C99, POSIX.1-2001.
.SH NOTES
Wide-character output to a byte oriented stream can be performed through the
.BR fprintf (3)
function with the
.B %lc
and
.B %ls
directives.
.PP
Char oriented output to a wide-character oriented stream can be performed
through the
.BR fwprintf (3)
function with the
.B %c
and
.B %s
directives.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR fprintf (3),
.BR fwprintf (3)