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.TH ugetx 3alleg4 "version 4.4.3" "Allegro" "Allegro manual"
.SH NAME
ugetx, ugetxc \- Low level helper function for reading Unicode text data. Allegro game programming library.\&
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B #include <allegro.h>

.sp
.B int ugetx(char **s);

.B int ugetxc(const char **s);
.SH DESCRIPTION
Low level helper function for reading Unicode text data. ugetxc is provided
for working with pointer-to-pointer-to-const char data. Example:

.nf
   char *p = string;
   int first_letter, second_letter, third_letter;
   first_letter = ugetx(&p);
   second_letter = ugetx(&p);
   third_letter = ugetx(&p);
.fi
.SH "RETURN VALUE"
Returns the character pointed to by `s' in the current encoding format, and
advances the pointer to the next character after the one just returned.

.SH SEE ALSO
.BR ugetc (3alleg4),
.BR usetc (3alleg4),
.BR uwidth (3alleg4),
.BR ucwidth (3alleg4),
.BR uisok (3alleg4)