ncurses 5.7 - patch 20090718

[ncurses.git] / man / curs_getcchar.3x

diff --git a/man/curs_getcchar.3x b/man/curs_getcchar.3x
index b811a37db8f724f8ecca7b6b66e5039eba0419db..107fed8c0064a0fcd7e0f407d58d45519547bb0d 100644 (file)
--- a/man/curs_getcchar.3x
+++ b/man/curs_getcchar.3x
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 .\"***************************************************************************
-.\" Copyright (c) 2001-2003,2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.              *
+.\" Copyright (c) 2001-2008,2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.              *
 .\"                                                                          *
 .\" Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a  *
 .\" copy of this software and associated documentation files (the            *
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 .\" authorization.                                                           *
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\"
-.\" $Id: curs_getcchar.3x,v 1.10 2006/12/24 16:00:02 tom Exp $
+.\" $Id: curs_getcchar.3x,v 1.12 2009/07/18 16:10:56 tom Exp $
 .TH curs_getcchar 3X ""
 .SH NAME
 \fBgetcchar\fP,
@@ -106,9 +106,14 @@ The color pair in
 -
 The wide-character string pointed to by \fIwch\fP.
 The string must be L'\\0' terminated,
-contain at most one character with strictly positive width,
-which must be the first,
-and contain no characters of negative width.
+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.
+.IP
+The string may contain a single control character instead.
+In that case, no nonspacing characters are allowed.
 .SH NOTES
 .PP
 The \fIopts\fP argument is reserved for future use.
@@ -121,7 +126,8 @@ If \fIwcval\fP is constructed by any other means, the effect is unspecified.
 .PP
 When \fIwch\fP is a null pointer,
 \fBgetcchar\fP returns the number of wide characters referenced by
-\fIwcval\fP.
+\fIwcval\fP,
+including one for a trailing null.
 .PP
 When \fIwch\fP is not a null pointer,
 \fBgetcchar\fP returns \fBOK\fP upon successful completion,