iswlower - test for lowercase wide character
Contents
Attributes
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬───────────────┬────────────────┐
│ Interface │ Attribute │ Value │
├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────┼────────────────┤
│ iswlower() │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe locale │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────────┴────────────────┘
Description
The iswlower() function is the wide-character equivalent of the islower(3) function. It tests whether wc
is a wide character belonging to the wide-character class "lower".
The wide-character class "lower" is a subclass of the wide-character class "alpha", and therefore also a
subclass of the wide-character class "alnum", of the wide-character class "graph" and of the wide-
character class "print".
Being a subclass of the wide-character class "print", the wide-character class "lower" is disjoint from
the wide-character class "cntrl".
Being a subclass of the wide-character class "graph", the wide-character class "lower" is disjoint from
the wide-character class "space" and its subclass "blank".
Being a subclass of the wide-character class "alnum", the wide-character class "lower" is disjoint from
the wide-character class "punct".
Being a subclass of the wide-character class "alpha", the wide-character class "lower" is disjoint from
the wide-character class "digit".
The wide-character class "lower" contains at least those characters wc which are equal to towlower(wc)
and different from towupper(wc).
The wide-character class "lower" always contains at least the letters 'a' to 'z'.
History
POSIX.1-2001, C99.
Library
Standard C library (libc, -lc)
Name
iswlower - test for lowercase wide character
Notes
The behavior of iswlower() depends on the LC_CTYPE category of the current locale.
This function is not very appropriate for dealing with Unicode characters, because Unicode knows about
three cases: upper, lower, and title case.
Return Value
The iswlower() function returns nonzero if wc is a wide character belonging to the wide-character class
"lower". Otherwise, it returns zero.
See Also
islower(3), iswctype(3), towlower(3) Linux man-pages 6.9.1 2024-05-02 iswlower(3)
Standards
C11, POSIX.1-2008.
Synopsis
#include<wctype.h>intiswlower(wint_twc);