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.