towlower, towlower_l - convert a wide character to lowercase
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Attributes
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).
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│ Interface │ Attribute │ Value │
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│ towlower() │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe locale │
├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────┼────────────────┤
│ towlower_l() │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────────┴────────────────┘
Description
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.
Library
Standard C library (libc, -lc)
Name
towlower, towlower_l - convert a wide character to lowercase
Notes
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.
Return Value
If wc was convertible to lowercase, towlower() returns its lowercase equivalent; otherwise it returns wc.
See Also
iswlower(3), towctrans(3), towupper(3), locale(7) Linux man-pages 6.9.1 2024-05-02 towlower(3)
Standards
towlower()
C99, POSIX.1-2001 (XSI). Obsolete in POSIX.1-2008 (XSI).
towlower_l()
glibc 2.3. POSIX.1-2008.
Synopsis
#include<wctype.h>wint_ttowlower(wint_twc);wint_ttowlower_l(wint_twc,locale_tlocale); 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
