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<STRONG>wchar_t</STRONG> is a unsigned type. All of the vendors implement this using
<STRONG>wint_t</STRONG>, following the standard.
+ X/Open Curses, Issue 7 (2009) is unclear regarding whether the termi-
+ nating <EM>null</EM> <STRONG>wchar_t</STRONG> value is counted in the length parameter <EM>n</EM>. X/Open
+ Curses, Issue 7 revised the corresponding description of <STRONG>wgetnstr</STRONG> to
+ address this issue. The unrevised description of <STRONG>wget_nwstr</STRONG> can be in-
+ terpreted either way. This implementation counts the terminator in the
+ length.
+
+ X/Open Curses does not specify what happens if the length <EM>n</EM> is nega-
+ tive.
+
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> For analogy with <STRONG>wgetnstr</STRONG>, ncurses 6.2 uses a limit (based on
+ <STRONG>LINE_MAX</STRONG>).
+
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> Some other implementations (such as Solaris xcurses) do the same,
+ while others (PDCurses) do not allow this.
+
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> NetBSD 7 curses imitates ncurses 6.1 in this regard, treating a <STRONG>-1</STRONG>
+ as an indefinite number of characters.
+
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></H2><PRE>
Functions: <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_get_wch.3x.html">curs_get_wch(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_getstr.3x.html">curs_getstr(3x)</A></STRONG>.
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