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towctrans(3) Library Functions Manual towctrans(3) NAME towctrans - Converts a wide character according to a property defined in the current locale LIBRARY Standard C Library (libc.so, libc.a) SYNOPSIS #include <wctype.h> wint_t towctrans( wint_t wc, wctrans_t conversion_handle ); STANDARDS Interfaces documented on this reference page conform to industry stan- dards as follows: towctrans(): ISO C Refer to the standards(5) reference page for more information about in- dustry standards and associated tags. PARAMETERS Specifies a wide-character value Calls the wctrans() function to return the wide character mapped to wc according to a valid property in the LC_CTYPE category of the current locale. DESCRIPTION The towctrans() function maps a wide character to its counterpart value according to a specified property, for example, tolower or toupper. Be- fore calling towctrans(), you must call wctrans() to determine if the property is valid for the current locale and to create a handle for the property map. You then call towctrans() to return the wide-character value that corresponds to the wide-character value specified by wc. The following example shows a call to towctrans() that returns the low- ercase equivalent of wc: towctrans(wc, wctrans("tolower")); The preceding call is equivalent to the following call: towlower(wc); Unlike the towlower() and towupper() functions, which deal specifically with case mapping, the combination of wctrans() and towctrans() func- tions are designed to be used with other properties that can be defined in a locale. RESTRICTIONS Currently, tolower and toupper are the only supported property values. Defining additional properties in locales requires an extension to the localedef utility. The rules for implementing this extension are not yet available in current issues of the industry standards that apply to this utility. EXAMPLES The following example converts the value in from_wc to uppercase: wint_t from_wc, to_wc; wctrans_t conv_handle; . . . conv_handle=wctrans("toupper"); to_wc=towctrans(from_wc,conv_han- dle); RETURN VALUES The towctrans() function returns the mapped value of wc according to the mapping described by conversion_handle. If EOF is encountered or conversion_handle cannot be used, the function returns 0 (zero). RELATED INFORMATION Functions: iswctype(3), towlower(3), wctrans(3), wctype(3) Files: locale(4) delim off towctrans(3)