NAME

putwchar — put a wide character on a stdout stream

SYNOPSIS

#include <wchar.h>

wint_t putwchar(wchar_t wc);


DESCRIPTION

^[CX] The functionality described on this reference page is aligned with the ISO C standard. Any conflict between the requirements described here and the ISO C standard is unintentional. This volume of POSIX.1-2024 defers to the ISO C standard.

The function call putwchar(wc) shall be equivalent to putwc(wc,stdout).

RETURN VALUE

Refer to fputwc.

ERRORS

Refer to fputwc.

EXAMPLES

None.

APPLICATION USAGE

None.

RATIONALE

None.

FUTURE DIRECTIONS

None.

SEE ALSO

2.5 Standard I/O Streams, fputwc, putwc

XBD <wchar.h>

CHANGE HISTORY

First released in Issue 4.

Issue 5

Aligned with ISO/IEC 9899:1990/Amendment 1:1995 (E). Specifically, the type of argument wc is changed from wint_t to wchar_t.

Issue 7

POSIX.1-2008, Technical Corrigendum 1, XSH/TC1-2008/0479 [14] is applied.