iswprint(3)

iswprint3

Test for printing wide character

Usage

#include <wctype.h>

int iswprint(wint_t wc);

Library

Standard C library (libc, -lc)

Overview

The iswprint() function is the wide-character equivalent of the isprint(3) function. It tests whether wc is a wide character belonging to the wide-character class "print".

The wide-character class "print" is disjoint from the wide-character class "cntrl".

The wide-character class "print" contains the wide-character class "graph".

Return value

The iswprint() function returns nonzero if wc is a wide character belonging to the wide-character class "print". Otherwise, it returns zero.

Attributes

For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).

InterfaceAttributeValue
iswprint()Thread safetyMT-Safe locale

Notes

The behavior of iswprint() depends on the LC_CTYPE category of the current locale.

Releases

14 releases since Debian 2.2 (Potato); the text changed 13 times.

  1. 2.2
  2. 3.0
  3. 3.1
  4. 4.0
  5. 5.0
  6. 6.0
  7. 7
  8. 8
  9. 9
  10. 10
  11. 11
  12. 12
  13. 13
  14. Arch

Standards

C11, POSIX.1-2008.

History

POSIX.1-2001, C99.

From man-pages 6.19-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.