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towlower(3) Library Functions Manual towlower(3)
towlower, towlower_l - convert a wide character to lowercase
Standard C library (libc, -lc)
#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(): Since glibc 2.10: _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 700 Before glibc 2.10: _GNU_SOURCE
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.
If wc was convertible to lowercase, towlower() returns its lowercase equivalent; otherwise it returns wc.
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 │ └──────────────────────────────┴───────────────┴────────────────┘
towlower() C11, POSIX.1-2008 (XSI). towlower_l() POSIX.1-2008.
towlower() C99, POSIX.1-2001 (XSI). Obsolete in POSIX.1-2008 (XSI). towlower_l() glibc 2.3. POSIX.1-2008.
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.
iswlower(3), towctrans(3), towupper(3), locale(7)
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Linux man-pages 6.9.1 2024-05-02 towlower(3)
Pages that refer to this page: iswlower(3), toupper(3), towctrans(3), towupper(3), wcscasecmp(3), wcsncasecmp(3)