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27.Dd August 4, 2002
28.Dt WCTRANS 3
29.Os
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm towctrans ,
32.Nm wctrans
33.Nd "wide character mapping functions"
34.Sh LIBRARY
35.Lb libc
36.Sh SYNOPSIS
37.In wctype.h
38.Ft wint_t
39.Fn towctrans "wint_t wc" "wctrans_t desc"
40.Ft wctrans_t
41.Fn wctrans "const char *charclass"
42.Sh DESCRIPTION
43The
44.Fn wctrans
45function returns a value of type
46.Vt wctrans_t
47which represents the requested wide character mapping operation and
48may be used as the second argument for calls to
49.Fn towctrans .
50.Pp
51The following character mapping names are recognised:
52.Bl -column -offset indent ".Li tolower" ".Li toupper"
53.It Li tolower Ta Li toupper
54.El
55.Pp
56The
57.Fn towctrans
58function transliterates the wide character
59.Fa wc
60according to the mapping described by
61.Fa desc .
62.Sh RETURN VALUES
63The
64.Fn towctrans
65function returns the transliterated character if successful, otherwise
66it returns the character unchanged and sets
67.Va errno .
68.Pp
69The
70.Fn wctrans
71function returns non-zero if successful, otherwise it returns zero
72and sets
73.Va errno .
74.Sh ERRORS
75The
76.Fn towctrans
77function will fail if:
78.Bl -tag -width Er
79.It Bq Er EINVAL
80The supplied
81.Fa desc
82argument is invalid.
83.El
84.Pp
85The
86.Fn wctrans
87function will fail if:
88.Bl -tag -width Er
89.It Bq Er EINVAL
90The requested mapping name is invalid.
91.El
92.Sh SEE ALSO
93.Xr tolower 3 ,
94.Xr toupper 3 ,
95.Xr wctype 3
96.Sh STANDARDS
97The
98.Fn towctrans
99and
100.Fn wctrans
101functions conform to
102.St -p1003.1-2001 .
103.Sh HISTORY
104The
105.Fn towctrans
106and
107.Fn wctrans
108functions first appeared in
109.Fx 5.0 .
110