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