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-.\" $Id: curs_getcchar.3x,v 1.42 2023/11/25 14:30:18 tom Exp $
-.TH curs_getcchar 3X 2023-11-25 "ncurses 6.4" "Library calls"
+.\" $Id: curs_getcchar.3x,v 1.43 2023/12/16 21:07:24 tom Exp $
+.TH curs_getcchar 3X 2023-12-16 "ncurses 6.4" "Library calls"
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.ie n .IP \(bu 4
.el .IP \(bu 2
.bP
Stores the character attributes in the location pointed to by \fIattrs\fP
.bP
-Stores the color-pair in the location pointed to by \fIcolor_pair\fP
+Stores the color pair in the location pointed to by \fIcolor_pair\fP
.bP
Stores the wide-character string,
characters referenced by \fIwcval\fP, into the array pointed to by \fIwch\fP.
contain at most one spacing character,
which must be the first.
.IP
-Up to \fBCCHARW_MAX\fP\-1 nonspacing characters may follow.
-Additional nonspacing characters are ignored.
+Up to \fBCCHARW_MAX\fP\-1 non-spacing characters may follow.
+Additional non-spacing characters are ignored.
.IP
The string may contain a single control character instead.
-In that case, no nonspacing characters are allowed.
+In that case, no non-spacing characters are allowed.
.SH RETURN VALUE
When \fIwch\fP is a null pointer,
\fBgetcchar\fP returns the number of wide characters referenced by
X/Open Curses documents the \fIopts\fP argument as reserved for future use,
saying that it must be null.
This implementation
-uses that parameter in ABI 6 for the functions which have a color-pair
+uses that parameter in ABI 6 for the functions which have a color pair
parameter to support extended color pairs:
.bP
For functions which modify the color, e.g., \fBsetcchar\fP,
and used to retrieve the color pair as an \fBint\fP value,
in addition retrieving it via the standard pointer to \fBshort\fP parameter.
.SH PORTABILITY
-The \fBCCHARW_MAX\fP symbol is specific to ncurses.
+The \fBCCHARW_MAX\fP symbol is specific to \fI\%ncurses\fP.
X/Open Curses does not provide details for the layout of the \fBcchar_t\fP
structure.
It tells what data are stored in it: