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17 .TH TOWLOWER 3 2014-03-18 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
19 towlower, towlower_l \- convert a wide character to lowercase
22 .B #include <wctype.h>
24 .BI "wint_t towlower(wint_t " wc );
26 .BI "wint_t towlower_l(wint_t " wc ", locale_t " locale );
30 Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see
31 .BR feature_test_macros (7)):
39 _XOPEN_SOURCE\ >=\ 700
48 function is the wide-character equivalent of the
53 is an uppercase wide character,
54 and there exists a lowercase equivalent in the current locale,
55 it returns the lowercase equivalent of
59 is returned unchanged.
63 function performs the same task,
64 but performs the conversion based on the character type information in
65 the locale specified by
71 is the special locale object
75 or is not a valid locale object handle.
79 must be representable as a
81 and be a valid character in the locale or be the value
86 was convertible to lowercase,
88 returns its lowercase equivalent;
92 .SS Multithreading (see pthreads(7))
95 function is thread-safe with exceptions.
96 It can be safely used in multithreaded applications, as long as
98 is not called to change the locale during its execution.
99 .\" FIXME . need a thread-safety statement about towlower_l()
103 function first appeared in glibc 2.3.
106 C99, POSIX.1-2001 (XSI);
107 present as an XSI extension in POSIX.1-2008, but marked obsolete.
112 The behavior of these functions depends on the
114 category of the locale.
116 These functions are not very appropriate for dealing with Unicode characters,
117 because Unicode knows about three cases: upper, lower and title case.