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27.Dd October 3, 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 EXAMPLES
75Reimplement
76.Fn towupper
77in terms of
78.Fn towctrans
79and
80.Fn wctrans :
81.Bd -literal -offset indent
82wint_t
83mytowupper(wint_t wc)
84{
85	return (towctrans(wc, wctrans("toupper")));
86}
87.Ed
88.Sh ERRORS
89The
90.Fn towctrans
91function will fail if:
92.Bl -tag -width Er
93.It Bq Er EINVAL
94The supplied
95.Fa desc
96argument is invalid.
97.El
98.Pp
99The
100.Fn wctrans
101function will fail if:
102.Bl -tag -width Er
103.It Bq Er EINVAL
104The requested mapping name is invalid.
105.El
106.Sh SEE ALSO
107.Xr tolower 3 ,
108.Xr toupper 3 ,
109.Xr wctype 3
110.Sh STANDARDS
111The
112.Fn towctrans
113and
114.Fn wctrans
115functions conform to
116.St -p1003.1-2001 .
117.Sh HISTORY
118The
119.Fn towctrans
120and
121.Fn wctrans
122functions first appeared in
123.Fx 5.0 .
124