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towupper(3) Library Functions Manual towupper(3)
towupper, towupper_l - convert a wide character to uppercase
Standard C library (libc, -lc)
#include <wctype.h> wint_t towupper(wint_t wc); wint_t towupper_l(wint_t wc, locale_t locale); Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)): towupper_l(): Since glibc 2.10: _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 700 Before glibc 2.10: _GNU_SOURCE
The towupper() function is the wide-character equivalent of the toupper(3) function. If wc is a lowercase wide character, and there exists an uppercase equivalent in the current locale, it returns the uppercase equivalent of wc. In all other cases, wc is returned unchanged. The towupper_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 towupper_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 uppercase, towupper() returns its uppercase equivalent; otherwise it returns wc.
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7). ┌───────────────────────────────┬───────────────┬────────────────┐ │Interface │ Attribute │ Value │ ├───────────────────────────────┼───────────────┼────────────────┤ │towupper() │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe locale │ ├───────────────────────────────┼───────────────┼────────────────┤ │towupper_l() │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe │ └───────────────────────────────┴───────────────┴────────────────┘
towupper() C11, POSIX.1-2008 (XSI). towupper_l() POSIX.1-2008.
towupper() C99, POSIX.1-2001 (XSI). Obsolete in POSIX.1-2008 (XSI). towupper_l() POSIX.1-2008. glibc 2.3.
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.
iswupper(3), towctrans(3), towlower(3), locale(7)
Linux man-pages 6.04 2023-03-30 towupper(3)
Pages that refer to this page: iswupper(3), toupper(3), towctrans(3), towlower(3), wcscasecmp(3), wcsncasecmp(3)