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NAME

       wctrans, wctrans_l -- define character mapping

SYNOPSIS

       #include <wctype.h>

       wctrans_t wctrans(const char *charclass);
       wctrans_t wctrans_l(const char *charclass, locale_t locale);

DESCRIPTION

       For wctrans(): The functionality described on this reference page is aligned with the ISO C standard. Any conflict between the requirements
       described here and the ISO C standard is unintentional. This volume of POSIX.1-2008 defers to the ISO C standard.

       The  wctrans() and wctrans_l() functions are defined for valid character mapping names identified in the current locale. The charclass is a
       string identifying a generic character mapping name for which codeset-specific information is required.	The  following	character  mapping
       names are defined in all locales: tolower and toupper.

       These  functions  shall	return	a value of type wctrans_t, which can be used as the second argument to subsequent calls of towctrans() and
       towctrans_l().

       The wctrans() and wctrans_l() functions shall determine values of wctrans_t according to the rules of the coded character  set  defined	by
       character mapping information in the current locale or in the locale represented by locale, respectively (category LC_CTYPE).

       The values returned by wctrans() shall be valid until a call to setlocale() that modifies the category LC_CTYPE.

       The values returned by wctrans_l() shall be valid only in calls to towctrans_l() with a locale represented by locale with the same LC_CTYPE
       category value.

       The behavior is undefined if the locale argument to wctrans_l() is the special locale object LC_GLOBAL_LOCALE or  is  not  a  valid  locale
       object handle.

RETURN VALUE

       The  wctrans()  and wctrans_l() functions shall return 0 and may set errno to indicate the error if the given character mapping name is not
       valid for the current locale (category LC_CTYPE); otherwise, they shall return a non-zero object of type wctrans_t  that  can  be  used	in
       calls to towctrans() and towctrans_l().

ERRORS

       These functions may fail if:

       EINVAL The character mapping name pointed to by charclass is not valid in the current locale.

       The following sections are informative.

EXAMPLES

       None.

APPLICATION USAGE

       None.

RATIONALE

       None.

FUTURE DIRECTIONS

       None.

SEE ALSO

       towctrans()

       The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1-2008, <wctype.h>

COPYRIGHT

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       ogy -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, Copyright (C)  2013  by	the  Institute	of
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NAME

     towctrans, towctrans_l, wctrans, wctrans_l -- wide character mapping functions

LIBRARY

     Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS

     #include <wctype.h>

     wint_t
     towctrans(wint_t wc, wctrans_t desc);

     wctrans_t
     wctrans(const char *charclass);

     #include <wctype.h>
     #include <xlocale.h>

     wint_t
     towctrans_l(wint_t wc, wctrans_t desc, locale_t loc);

     wctrans_t
     wctrans_l(const char *charclass, locale_t loc);

DESCRIPTION

     The wctrans() function returns a value of type wctrans_t, which represents the requested wide character mapping operation and may be used as
     the second argument for calls to towctrans().

     The following character mapping names are recognised:

	   tolower    toupper

     The towctrans() function transliterates the wide character wc, according to the mapping described by desc.

     While the towctrans() and wctrans() functions use the current locale, the towctrans_l() and wctrans_l() functions may be passed locales
     directly. See xlocale(3) for more information.

RETURN VALUES

     The towctrans() function returns the transliterated character if successful, otherwise it returns the character unchanged and sets errno.

     The wctrans() function returns non-zero if successful, otherwise it returns zero and sets errno.

EXAMPLES

     Reimplement towupper() in terms of towctrans() and wctrans():

	   wint_t
	   mytowupper(wint_t wc)
	   {
		   return (towctrans(wc, wctrans("toupper")));
	   }

ERRORS

     The towctrans() function will fail if:

     [EINVAL]		The supplied desc argument is invalid.

     The wctrans() function will fail if:

     [EINVAL]		The requested mapping name is invalid.

SEE ALSO

     tolower(3), toupper(3), wctype(3), xlocale(3)

STANDARDS

     The towctrans() and wctrans() functions conform to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (``POSIX.1'').

HISTORY

     The towctrans() and wctrans() functions first appeared in FreeBSD 5.0.

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								  October 3, 2002							       BSD

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