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NAME

       ugetx,  ugetxc  -  Low  level  helper function for reading Unicode text
       data. Allegro game programming library.

SYNOPSIS

       #include <allegro.h>

       int ugetx(char **s);

       int ugetxc(const char **s);

DESCRIPTION

       Low level helper function for reading  Unicode  text  data.  ugetxc  is
       provided   for  working  with  pointer-to-pointer-to-const  char  data.
       Example:

          char *p = string;
          int first_letter, second_letter, third_letter;
          first_letter = ugetx(&p);
          second_letter = ugetx(&p);
          third_letter = ugetx(&p);

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.

SEE ALSO

       ugetc(3alleg),    usetc(3alleg),    uwidth(3alleg),    ucwidth(3alleg),
       uisok(3alleg)