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.Dd December 26, 2013
.Dt FPUTWS 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm fputws ,
.Nm fputws_l
.Nd output a line of wide characters to a stream
.Sh LIBRARY
.Lb libc
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.In stdio.h
.In wchar.h
.Ft int
.Fn fputws "const wchar_t * restrict ws" "FILE * restrict fp"
.In xlocale.h
.Ft int
.Fn fputws_l "const wchar_t * restrict ws" "FILE * restrict fp" "locale_t locale"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Fn fputws
and
.Fn fputws_l
functions write the wide character string pointed to by
.Fa ws
to the stream pointed to by
.Fa fp .
.Pp
The
.Fn fputws_l
function takes an explicit
.Fa locale
argument, whereas the
.Fn fputws
function uses the current global or per-thread locale.
.Sh RETURN VALUES
The
.Fn fputws
and
.Fn fputws_l
functions return 0 on success and \-1 on error.
.Sh ERRORS
The
.Fn fputws
and
.Fn fputws_l
functions will fail if:
.Bl -tag -width Er
.It Bq Er EBADF
The
.Fa fp
argument supplied
is not a writable stream.
.El
.Pp
The
.Fn fputws
and
.Fn fputws_l
functions may also fail and set
.Va errno
for any of the errors specified for the routine
.Xr write 2 .
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr ferror 3 ,
.Xr fputs 3 ,
.Xr putwc 3 ,
.Xr stdio 3 ,
.Xr xlocale 3
.Sh STANDARDS
The
.Fn fputws
function conforms to
.St -p1003.1-2001 .