NAME
towlower - convert a wide character to lowercase SYNOPSIS
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wintt towlower(wintt wc); DESCRIPTION The towlower() function is the wide-character equivalent of the tolower(3) function. If wc is a wide character, it is converted to lowercase. Characters which do not have case are returned unchanged. If wc is WEOF, WEOF is returned. RETURN VALUE The towlower() function returns the lowercase equivalent of wc, or WEOF if wc is WEOF. ATTRIBUTES For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7). ┌─────────────┬───────────────┬────────────────┐ │Interface │ Attribute │ Value │ ├─────────────┼───────────────┼────────────────┤
│towlower() │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe locale │ ├─────────────┼───────────────┼────────────────┤
│towlowerl() │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe │ └─────────────┴───────────────┴────────────────┘ VERSIONS The towlowerl() function first appeared in glibc 2.3. CONFORMING TO C99. NOTES The behavior of towlower() depends on the LCCTYPE category of the cur‐ rent locale. This function is not very appropriate for dealing with Unicode charac‐ ters, because Unicode knows about three cases: upper, lower and title case. SEE ALSO iswlower(3), towctrans(3), towupper(3) COLOPHON
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