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treated as an end-of-file condition, and the returned ar-
ray contains a <STRONG>WEOF</STRONG> followed by a null <STRONG>wchar_t</STRONG>.
- X/Open curses documents these functions to pass an array
- of <STRONG>wchar_t</STRONG>, but all of the vendors implement this using
- <STRONG>wint_t</STRONG>.
+ X/Open curses documented these functions to pass an array
+ of <STRONG>wchar_t</STRONG> in 1997, but that was an error because of this
+ part of the description:
+
+ The effect of <EM>get</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG><EM>wstr()</EM> is as though a series of
+ calls to <EM>get</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG><EM>wch()</EM> were made, until a newline char-
+ acter, end-of-line character, or end-of-file char-
+ acter is processed.
+
+ The latter function <EM>get</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG><EM>wch()</EM> can return a negative value,
+ while <STRONG>wchar_t</STRONG> is a unsigned type. All of the vendors im-
+ plement this using <STRONG>wint_t</STRONG>, following the standard.
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