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diff --git a/man3/towlower.3 b/man3/towlower.3 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9748303 --- /dev/null +++ b/man3/towlower.3 @@ -0,0 +1,132 @@ +'\" t +.\" Copyright (c) Bruno Haible <haible@clisp.cons.org> +.\" and Copyright (C) 2014 Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later +.\" +.\" References consulted: +.\" GNU glibc-2 source code and manual +.\" Dinkumware C library reference http://www.dinkumware.com/ +.\" OpenGroup's Single UNIX specification http://www.UNIX-systems.org/online.html +.\" ISO/IEC 9899:1999 +.\" +.TH towlower 3 2023-07-20 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01" +.SH NAME +towlower, towlower_l \- convert a wide character to lowercase +.SH LIBRARY +Standard C library +.RI ( libc ", " \-lc ) +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.B #include <wctype.h> +.PP +.BI "wint_t towlower(wint_t " wc ); +.BI "wint_t towlower_l(wint_t " wc ", locale_t " locale ); +.fi +.PP +.RS -4 +Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see +.BR feature_test_macros (7)): +.RE +.PP +.BR towlower_l (): +.nf + Since glibc 2.10: + _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 700 + Before glibc 2.10: + _GNU_SOURCE +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +The +.BR towlower () +function is the wide-character equivalent of the +.BR tolower (3) +function. +If +.I wc +is an uppercase wide character, +and there exists a lowercase equivalent in the current locale, +it returns the lowercase equivalent of +.IR wc . +In all other cases, +.I wc +is returned unchanged. +.PP +The +.BR towlower_l () +function performs the same task, +but performs the conversion based on the character type information in +the locale specified by +.IR locale . +The behavior of +.BR towlower_l () +is undefined if +.I locale +is the special locale object +.B LC_GLOBAL_LOCALE +(see +.BR duplocale (3)) +or is not a valid locale object handle. +.PP +The argument +.I wc +must be representable as a +.I wchar_t +and be a valid character in the locale or be the value +.BR WEOF . +.SH RETURN VALUE +If +.I wc +was convertible to lowercase, +.BR towlower () +returns its lowercase equivalent; +otherwise it returns +.IR wc . +.SH ATTRIBUTES +For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see +.BR attributes (7). +.TS +allbox; +lbx lb lb +l l l. +Interface Attribute Value +T{ +.na +.nh +.BR towlower () +T} Thread safety MT-Safe locale +T{ +.na +.nh +.BR towlower_l () +T} Thread safety MT-Safe +.TE +.sp 1 +.SH STANDARDS +.TP +.BR towlower () +C11, POSIX.1-2008 (XSI). +.TP +.BR towlower_l () +POSIX.1-2008. +.SH STANDARDS +.TP +.BR towlower () +C99, POSIX.1-2001 (XSI). +Obsolete in POSIX.1-2008 (XSI). +.TP +.BR towlower_l () +glibc 2.3. +POSIX.1-2008. +.SH NOTES +The behavior of these functions depends on the +.B LC_CTYPE +category of the locale. +.PP +These functions are not very appropriate for dealing with Unicode characters, +because Unicode knows about three cases: upper, lower, and title case. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR iswlower (3), +.BR towctrans (3), +.BR towupper (3), +.BR locale (7) |