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36.Dd October 4, 2002
37.Dt WCSCOLL 3
38.Os
39.Sh NAME
40.Nm wcscoll
41.Nd compare wide strings according to current collation
42.Sh LIBRARY
43.Lb libc
44.Sh SYNOPSIS
45.In wchar.h
46.Ft int
47.Fn wcscoll "const wchar_t *s1" "const wchar_t *s2"
48.Sh DESCRIPTION
49The
50.Fn wcscoll
51function compares the null-terminated strings
52.Fa s1
53and
54.Fa s2
55according to the current locale collation order.
56In the
57.Dq Li C
58locale,
59.Fn wcscoll
60is equivalent to
61.Fn wcscmp .
62.Sh RETURN VALUES
63The
64.Fn wcscoll
65function
66returns an integer greater than, equal to, or less than 0,
67if
68.Fa s1
69is greater than, equal to, or less than
70.Fa s2 .
71.Pp
72No return value is reserved to indicate errors;
73callers should set
74.Va errno
75to 0 before calling
76.Fn wcscoll .
77If it is non-zero upon return from
78.Fn wcscoll ,
79an error has occurred.
80.Sh ERRORS
81The
82.Fn wcscoll
83function will fail if:
84.Bl -tag -width Er
85.It Bq Er EILSEQ
86An invalid wide character code was specified.
87.It Bq Er ENOMEM
88Cannot allocate enough memory for temporary buffers.
89.El
90.Sh SEE ALSO
91.Xr setlocale 3 ,
92.Xr strcoll 3 ,
93.Xr wcscmp 3 ,
94.Xr wcsxfrm 3
95.Sh STANDARDS
96The
97.Fn wcscoll
98function
99conforms to
100.St -isoC-99 .
101.Sh BUGS
102The current implementation of
103.Fn wcscoll
104only works in single-byte
105.Dv LC_CTYPE
106locales, and falls back to using
107.Fn wcscmp
108in locales with extended character sets.
109