TOWLOWER
Section: Linux Programmer's Manual (3)
Updated: 2017-09-15
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NAME
towlower, towlower_l - convert a wide character to lowercase
SYNOPSIS
#include <wctype.h>
wint_t towlower(wint_t wc);
wint_t towlower_l(wint_t wc, locale_t locale);
Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see
feature_test_macros(7)):
towlower_l():
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- Since glibc 2.10:
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_XOPEN_SOURCE >= 700
- Before glibc 2.10:
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_GNU_SOURCE
DESCRIPTION
The
towlower()
function is the wide-character equivalent of the
tolower(3)
function.
If
wc
is an uppercase wide character,
and there exists a lowercase equivalent in the current locale,
it returns the lowercase equivalent of
wc.
In all other cases,
wc
is returned unchanged.
The
towlower_l()
function performs the same task,
but performs the conversion based on the character type information in
the locale specified by
locale.
The behavior of
towlower_l()
is undefined if
locale
is the special locale object
LC_GLOBAL_LOCALE
(see
duplocale(3))
or is not a valid locale object handle.
The argument
wc
must be representable as a
wchar_t
and be a valid character in the locale or be the value
WEOF.
RETURN VALUE
If
wc
was convertible to lowercase,
towlower()
returns its lowercase equivalent;
otherwise it returns
wc.
VERSIONS
The
towlower_l()
function first appeared in glibc 2.3.
ATTRIBUTES
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see
attributes(7).
| Interface | Attribute | Value
|
|
towlower()
| Thread safety | MT-Safe locale
|
|
towlower_l()
| Thread safety | MT-Safe
|
CONFORMING TO
towlower():
C99, POSIX.1-2001 (XSI);
present as an XSI extension in POSIX.1-2008, but marked obsolete.
towlower_l():
POSIX.1-2008.
NOTES
The behavior of these functions depends on the
LC_CTYPE
category of the locale.
These functions are not very appropriate for dealing with Unicode characters,
because Unicode knows about three cases: upper, lower and title case.
SEE ALSO
iswlower(3),
towctrans(3),
towupper(3),
locale(7)
COLOPHON
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Index
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