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